Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors

Strange thing: I can not find an INS key on my MacBook. Its delete key 
acts like the back space key...

--Dan

On 02/15/2013 04:05 PM, anne-ology wrote:
>         ooh, how I dislike that INS key ... I tend to hit that rather than
> the DEL key many times;
>             then I'll start typing only to find I'm erasing  ;-(
>
>         Whoever decided to place that INS key must not have been thinking;
>             doesn't any typist know to click on the space-bar to insert
> letters, ...   ;-)
>
>         Oh, right, this is a computer not a 'glorified typewriter'  ;-)
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Paul D. Mirowsky
> <p_mirowsky@bentaxna.com>wrote:
>
> An interesting point.
> > Perhaps there ought to be a mode switch between "Next top of page" and
> > "Proportional" when using Page Up/Down keys.
> >
> > I can't remember the last time I used my "Insert" key to change its mode.
> >
> > Perhaps it is time to make "Insert" a mode switch for Delete, Home, End
> > and Page Up/Down.
> >
> > After all, we've got Control, Alt and Win/Apple Whatever special keys.
> >   What's one more in the group.
> >
> > Alas,  I digress
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/15/2013 9:35 AM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> >
> > > Something I've never figured out--and seems true of LO/OO as well as M$
> > > Word: When reading through a document, one hits 'PgDn', but one doesn't
> > > get a new page--it only scrolls down some seemingly arbitrary number of
> > > lines. One has to scan the new screen to see what one left off reading
> > > and one may only have gotten a half page of new reading for the effort.
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm spoiled by e-readers. But maybe, even after all these years, I
> > > haven't figured out how to do this correctly in a word processor.
> > >
> > > Thanks.

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