>>Hilmar;
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>>You can also ask a user how to stop a select command. Some would simply turn off the power. Even with a "kill select method" and training, users do as they please! :)
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>>Tom
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>Yes, that can happen. The following case was reported as real - from the old WordPerfect days. Somebody asked a secretary how to get out of the program. She responded: "press this button" [the power button]. (Note: If I remember correctly, the standard key for "Exit", in WordPerfect, was F7).
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>Hilmar.

Hilmar;

The most dangerous user is a developer! I was an old Word Star user, and my secretary used WordPerfect. She had just finished a 250 page technical manual and wanted to format it. I said, “No problem”, and proceeded to execute Word Star keyboard commands. The document disappeared! I felt VERY BAD! I was able to recover the document and left the formatting up to the secretary!

That was a great lesson – never presume you know anything about another program because you have knowledge of another.


Tom