Thank you (and Richard) for the CTRL-G hint. However, that wasn't what I
meant.
Under V5, I could CTRL-F to START a FIND, REPEAT the FIND, CLOSE the FIND
window with an ESC, bring the FIND window back up and type in a NEW search
string with CTRL-F.
Now we get the SLOW FIND PANE that then scrunches the actual book to
unreadable font sizes (getting old.....) and then have to HIDE the FIND
PANE to read the book, etc.
Give me an option to go back to the way it was !!!
"Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Try ctrl-g for "find again".
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I agree on the speed issue.
Adobe Acrobat 6 is a joke. The FIND processes is
ridiculous, making you
have to use the mouse, whether you like it or not (under
V5, you used to
be able to repeatedly do a CTRL-F to either find again or
change the
search value. Now a CTRL-F brings up the annoying "find
pane").
Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Just thought I'd mention...
There have been observations that viewing PDFed manuals
online is a
drudge,
making one want to keep hardcopies of TSM manuals to flip
through to
quickly
get to information. Having had only hardcopy manuals my
first 20 years in
data processing, I understand.
I've been a Macintosh user since about 1986 and recently
got a G5 for my
office workstation. In Mac OS X (whose standard document
model is PDF) is
an application called Preview, for viewing PDF and
graphics file. Its
speed
is incredible, making online PDF use a joy. I used
Acrobat Reader before
this
- which was the speed of a tortoise...enough to
discourage anyone from
viewing
PDFs on-screen. But Preview is like lightning: as you
type the phrase you
want to find, Preview is already finding hits for you. By
the time I've
finished typing the phrase, it has found them all.
If you have any say in your workstation choice, this is
the way to go.
I can now search a huge manual in seconds. I never
bother with hardcopy
manuals any more, saving lots of storage space and much
personal time.
Richard Sims
