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Oh, yeah
Authored by: hamarkus on Nov 03, '05 01:39:35PM

Three basic steps in learning how to use computers:
1) How do I select?
click, hold and drag
2) Now, how do I select the next item without deselecting the first?
press shift while selecting additional items
3) But how do I select something that is not adjacent to my first selection?
Press crtl/cmd while selecting additional non-adjacent items

Unfortunately, this last method has, historically, long been considered as an advanced feature and has only slowly crept into OSs and programs, and was even touted as a great new feature in software revisions. Even nowadays it is not implemented everywhere (in order not to confuse people or because of lazyness?).

This hint could have been about announcing a new feature in Word 2004 (even though I thought this feature existed already prior to Office 2004).



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