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I think this was a GREAT hint.
Authored by: garneaum on Nov 04, '05 02:44:43PM

I get pretty tired of reading people making comments like you've made on this hint. This may not be a HINT to you, but it is certainly going to be a HINT to someone. Just because you teach it in your beginning class doesn't mean it's not worth sharing in this forum.

Do you criticize your students for asking questions that may be "simpler" than you would like to answer or discuss?

Let's let people post hints and spare the criticisms. Afterall, the poster did start out with "this may be common knowledge to most".

Just my 2cents.



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I think this was a GREAT hint.
Authored by: hamarkus on Nov 04, '05 03:34:19PM

Did you like the hint because it said:

1) "In a lot of programs, selecting non-contigeous items can be achieved by cmd-click, and by the way since Office 2004 this also works in Word" (the later part of this statement I would dispute since I think this has been a feature of Office for quite some time).

Or because it said:

2) "Selecting non-contigeous items via cmd-click now also works in Word (since Office 2004)" (which as I said would most likely be incorrect).

Meaning 1) would fall into the category "Useful feature, which not everybody might be aware of" akin to saying cmd-clicking a link in tab-savvy browser opens the link in a new tab in the background.

Meaning 2) would fall into the category "New feature in latest version of program X".

Maybe one could create a category "Modifier key hint of the day" or one called "New features in popular apps".

One can critisize this hint for stating the obvious or for claiming novelty where none exists.



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