Your argument points to a dogged determination to defend Mr. Daniels.
My "dogged determination" is to be fair and open-minded. Instead of
challenging every incorrect answer, I find it sufficient to post a correct
answer for the benefit of the OP. If the person who posted the incorrect (or
less helpful) answer sees my answer and tacitly files that knowledge away
for future use, fine. If the person who posted the less than helpful answer
wants to challenge my answer, then I will discuss the issue. But I do not
feel the need to attack anyone who posts an incorrect answer, much less
gloat over it.
In the case of Ctrl+Home vs.Ctrl+H, Peter's was a silly answer but not
entirely impossible (though I considered it unlikely). The behavior of
certain commands and features with the WordPerfect options enabled is rather
specialist knowledge, and you wouldn't get it by using Word 2007, in which
those options no longer exist (thank goodness!). As I did happen to have
this knowledge, I was able to supply what I believe to be the correct
answer. Since the OP has not come back to say one way or the other, for all
we know he might actually have pressed Ctrl+H by mistake.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
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It is not unusual to have to assume that an OP may not actually have
enough knowledge to frame the right question, that is, that the
question, as stated, may not represent the actual question or problem,
and the solution may lie elsewhere than in an answer to the
exact question asked.
No. Though it is unusual, rude and offensive to publically bet that an OP
is a fumble fingered moron who inadvertenly presses CTRL+h when they post
asking why pressing CTRL+Home brings up the Find dialog. That instance,
like this one, makes it clear that often Mr. Daniels thinks he knows far
more than what he actually does know.
Your argument points to a dogged determination to defend Mr. Daniels.
Mine is to suggest that if he doesn't know the correct answer then it is
ok to leave it to those who do and to suggest that he check his opinions
and assumptions about how Word works before posting them as statements of
fact.
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I think Greg interpreted "knowledge" as being on your part rather
than on the part of the OP. Your meaning was clear to me, viz., "I
will not assume that the OP already knows what I'm about to say if he
hasn't said so."
It is not unusual to have to assume that an OP may not actually have
enough knowledge to frame the right question, that is, that the
question, as stated, may not represent the actual question or
problem, and the solution may lie elsewhere than in an answer to the
exact question asked.
On Nov 16, 9:27 am, "Greg Maxey"
wrote:
Does Mr. Daniels imagine that people have nothing else to do with
their lives than study the posting times of his mostly incorrect
posts? Unlike your stalkers, as you like to call them, you rarely know
the
right answer to any question.
I will not assume knowledge not explicit in their postings.
Oh really? Now there is a sharp reversal of habit. Who crowed these
words less than a month ago?
"Try reading for _content_ and _context_ rather than, as you always
do, only for the specific question asked, where a more sensitive
reader can intuit what's actually going on from what is unsaid."
Cheers.