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Re: General--A Minor Annoyance

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• Subject: [mg64057] Re: General--A Minor Annoyance
• From: albert <awnl at arcor.de>
• Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:10:12 -0500 (EST)
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ntgladd at gladd.com wrote:

> RSI has me looking for ways to reduce keystrokes and mouse gestures.
> 
> I type a jillion cells a year and when I enter a new cell and want to
> change it's style I have two basic choices
> 
> 1) type a few characters
> 2) select the cell with mouse left
> 3) mouse right and choose cell type from Style
>    (alternatively, I can select Format -> Style from the top menu)
>    (alternatively I can type Alt-7 [for text] after the cell in selected)
> 
> I can also change the style of a cell completely with the keyboard
> 1) type a few characters
> 2) select the cell with ExpandSelection  (but this takes a few presses of
> Ctrl > and it's easy to over expand) 3) Change the style with Alt-7
> 3) Move the selection point back inside the cell with left arrow.
> 
> It seems to me that this should to be easy to do with just two keystrokes,
>  For example Ctrl S (to select the encompassing cell) Alt7 to change it to
> text, or even better, just Ctrl S7
> 
> The completion command Ctrl K seems to contain most of the steps required
> to do this. It must select the cell, identify the preceding text, pop up a
> menu with possible completions, and then modify the contents of the cell.
> 
> I am not much of a front-end programmer but suspect that many on this
> forum are good at it. Has anyone written anything like this? Or does
> anyone have a better suggestion for efficiently changing the type of cell
> when the selection point is within the cell.

hm, what I usually do is leave the cell with arrow up, then select it with
shift arrow down and use Alt-7 for switching to text. That is comfortable
enough for me to never have thought about a different solution...

hth,

albert

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