Re: Wheel mouse/track ball/keyboard/left brain-right brain/zone question

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

On 28 May 2002 at 9:07, Dick Margulis wrote:

> Similarly, they know how to close a window, but not how to minimize
> it. They perceive the phrase "right-click" as being something uttered
> in a non-Indo-European language they never studied. The connection
> between copying something from the Edit menu and typing Ctrl-C has to
> be learned separately for every application. Learning about Alt-Tab is
> a fresh revelation every time I explain it. 
> 
> These are not stupid people. 

> So what is it? 

Age? The first Word processor I worked on (not even a PC, mind 
you, but a dedicated WP) used short cut keys for everything -- 
CTRL+U to turn underline on, CTRL+U to turn it back off, CTRL+B 
for bold, etc. You want to cut, copy & paste? CTRL keys... That was 
how you accessed all features; I don't think there WAS another way. 

Many people in the work place today were brought up in a drag-n-
drop, drop-down menu environment. They have never had the need 
to learn the keyboard control keys. 

Dana W. 

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