ooh, how I dislike that INS key ... I tend to hit that rather than the DEL key many times; then I'll start typing only to find I'm erasing ;-(
Whoever decided to place that INS key must not have been thinking; doesn't any typist know to click on the space-bar to insert letters, ... ;-) Oh, right, this is a computer not a 'glorified typewriter' ;-) On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Paul D. Mirowsky <p_mirow...@bentaxna.com>wrote: An interesting point. > > Perhaps there ought to be a mode switch between "Next top of page" and > "Proportional" when using Page Up/Down keys. > > I can't remember the last time I used my "Insert" key to change its mode. > > Perhaps it is time to make "Insert" a mode switch for Delete, Home, End > and Page Up/Down. > > After all, we've got Control, Alt and Win/Apple Whatever special keys. > What's one more in the group. > > Alas, I digress > > > > On 2/15/2013 9:35 AM, Eric Beversluis wrote: > >> Something I've never figured out--and seems true of LO/OO as well as M$ >> Word: When reading through a document, one hits 'PgDn', but one doesn't >> get a new page--it only scrolls down some seemingly arbitrary number of >> lines. One has to scan the new screen to see what one left off reading >> and one may only have gotten a half page of new reading for the effort. >> >> Maybe I'm spoiled by e-readers. But maybe, even after all these years, I >> haven't figured out how to do this correctly in a word processor. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted