In a message dated 11/03/2006 3:58:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, Leshorn@ythanonich.freeserve.co.uk writes: > Since we're all cocooned by the Windows interface these days we tend to > forget about the keyboard shortcuts we aging Listers all used with DOS > before Microsoft. Not true! Most of them still work and, as before, most of them are quicker and easier than the mouse commands (and much better ergonomically). I always know when I have been using my mouse too much - I get a terrible painful knot in the muscles of my upper back. If I go back to using the old keyboard tricks and only use the mouse when absolutely necessary the pain goes away. As an example, I received and read this original message without touching the mouse, then selected the segment above and composed this reply, and now will send it, all without touching the mouse. I use Windows XP, and have maintained my use of the keyboard shortcuts through about 6 "upgrades" of operating systems, starting with DOS well over 20 years ago. When taking a few courses at different times during the 90s, instructors informed the classes that the old tricks were no longer possible. I interrupted the instructors, demonstrated that (most of them) still worked, to the amazement of the instructors. I think it was a "plot" to indoctrinate the instructors that one had to use the mouse, and then send them out to infect the rest of us. Ken Harrison North Vancouver, Canada Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as PROGRESS ... HARRISON Yorkshire > Staffordshire > London (Highgate/Hampstead) POTCHIT Yorkshire FISHER London (Highgate/Hampstead) GREAVES Yorkshire > London GRIFFIN Staffordshire STANLEY Staffordshire SMELLIE Lanark > Orkney > Glasgow > Canada + Tasmania STIRRAT Ayrshire > Glasgow BAIN Caithness MILLER Caithness > Swaziland + S. Africa SPENCE Orkney FOTHERINGHAM Orkney TRAILL Orkney SELKRIG Lanark WICKETSHAW Lanark MORRISON Perthshire > Dumbarton > Glasgow > Australia (Vic) MORRISON Islay > Ontario BAIRD Renfrew HAM Australia (Vic) THOMPSON Suffolk > Yorkshire AGGUS Suffolk BRIGHTWELL Suffolk LAWSON Clackmannanshire > Ontario McNABB Islay > Ontario MURRAY Dumfries > Renfrew SINCLAIR Perthshire > Renfrew GILLESPIE Dumfries HENDERSON Dumfries TICKET (TAKET) Dumfries + Lanark CALDWELL Tyrone > Renfrew GRAHAM Tyrone > Ontario Genealogists never die ... they just lose their census. Unless specifically stated otherwise in this message, there is no intentional attachment on this e-mail transmission.

Ken wrote: > Not true! Most of them still work and, as before, most of them are > quicker and easier than the mouse commands (and much better > ergonomically). Agreed - but how many computer users know what DOS is let alone what it was before MS Windows - remember the Sinclair ZX or the Commodore. As I said "... we're all cocooned by the Windows interface" Best Wishes Les