Cross reference keyboard shortcut

David Creamer ideaslists at ideastraining.com
Wed Dec 13 09:13:19 PST 2006


>> For general menu access, I also prefer the old Windows (DOS?) Alt key
>> shortcut over any similar Esc shortcuts. It is easier to remember and it
>> works in virtually any program.
> 
> Yes, but FrameMaker's Escape key sequence commands work on all FrameMaker
> platforms, Windows, Mac and UNIX. There are some users who work in FrameMaker
> on more than one platform, so they only have to learn one FrameMaker keystroke
> set.

That's fine. As I said-- *I* prefer. I was not telling you what to do.

The new Macs don't even run Classic, so the Mac version is beyond EOL.
(Of course, one could dig up an old Mac, and old copy of FrameMaker for Mac,
and run it into the ground--or one could hack Classic on an Intel Mac--but
that was not the point.)

Unix users tend to be more tech savvy than many Windows users, so they tend
to already know to look for shortcuts.

In *my* Frame training, I would say it is 99.9% Windows users. Only one
company I've run into had some Unix users mixed in. Of the Windows users,
most of them are switching from Word. I (still) feel that on a
single-platform, the Alt key is easier to use for Windows users.

David Creamer
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