Unfortunately, pop-up menus are inherently more difficult and slower to use than are pull-down menus. (I find our ever-increasing computer laziness quite wonderful!) This saves the trouble of mousing all the way up to the menu bar, finding the right option and choosing it. Select a range of cells, command-option click, and Excel allows you to instantly cut, copy, paste, clear, delete, or insert, as well as change number, alignment, font, border, or patterns formatting. When you hold down the command and option keys and click the mouse, Excel brings up a pop-up shortcut menu right next to your mouse pointer. I bought a half-dozen new programs, configured the system, set the DIP switches on the printer, and as I sit here watching my spreadsheet crawl on my PC, I'm thinking to myself "THIS IS MAKING IT EASIER?"īy Fred Condo - Howard Hansen's EXCELlent review of Excel 4 in TidBITS-127, he makes the following comment about the pop-up menus feature:
Some ads might run a bit like this.Īll I really wanted to do was simplify my job. The new campaign will go head-to-head with Windows, much like Sculley's presentation at Macworld SF when he had an assistant try to make a PC-clone into a multimedia machine.
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Click, click, click, and you'll be jumping from one place to another of your mounted volumes."Īlberto Ricci - Apple Campaign - We've heard from the estimable Pythaeus that Apple has begun a completely new advertising campaign that may address some of the complaints Mac users have had with Apple's advertising. If you are using any application, and you have the Open or Save standard file dialog in front, and you've got Super Boomerang installed, clicking on a window that belongs to the Finder (one of the windows in the background - just click a part of it if it's partially covered by other windows) will bring you to that level of the hierarchy in the standard file dialog. Super Boomerang Tip - Alberto Ricci writes, "Wow - here is an incredibly useful feature that Hiroaki Yamamoto put in Super Boomerang.
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My apologies! It's too late for the upgrade now, but still, sorry about that.
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QuicKeys ElectroOops - I completely forgot to mention in TidBITS-127 what CE Software included in the QuicKeys upgrade, and I can't expect everyone to remember TidBITS-123, which talked about what would be in the upgrade. All rights reserved.Įarly apologies if you see this a little late - we've been married exactly one year now and the champagne might get in the way of uploading this issue everywhere. Then comes the meat of the issue with a preview article on FileMaker Pro 2.0 for the Mac and Windows, some in-depth analysis of Apple's Newton announcements, and a look at works programs by Matthew Wall that leads into a special issue on ClarisWorks later this week.Ĭopyright 1992 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. First come short notes about Super Boomerang, pop-up menus, and three of the most popular word processors, Word, Nisus, and WriteNow. This is an issue of the small and the large.
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