Re: 10.5.5 Upgrade Word processor layout problems?

Batman <batman@xxx> wrote:

In article
<doraymeRidThis-5792DD.12585906112008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <051120081717374373%jimsgibson@xxxxxxxxx>,
Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you are not using Application Switcher and not using the Dock, how
do you switch between applications?

By manually moving undocked app windows about, to ferret out the one you
want. I used to do this easily in < OS X because there was the handy
ability to collpse a window into a strip (leaving title). But Jim is
correct that it would be pretty hard to operate with X without the dock.

I have it appear when the mouse gets down to the bottom. Nice space
saving device, cleaner look and more elegant. But there are some tricks
you need to avoid getting frustrated when you *don't* want the dock but
*do* want to do something (like resize a window) near where the OS
triggers the dock to appear.

Don't most users just use Command_Tab to switch between open programs
and Command_` to switch between open windows within a program?

Advanced users do. That is the application switcher (at least
Command-Tab is, not sure about Command-`).

The application switcher remains hidden if you press and release
Command-Tab quickly. If you hold down the Command key it will become
visible, allowing you to do several more things such as use the mouse to
click on one of the other applications, multi-tab between recent
applications, hide the selected application by pressing H or quit the
selected application by pressing Q (all while continuing to hold down
the Command key).

If Dock wasn't running, the Command-Tab key combination wouldn't work.
The only way to switch applications would be to click on a visible
window, and if the application didn't have any open windows you couldn't
activate it (short of using a third party application switcher, or
double-clicking its icon in Finder again).

I've been meaning to learn Quicksilver so I can launch stuff without the
Finder but there are so many programs available to launch in most people's
Applications folder, many of us just use the Finder. You can't fit them
all in the Dock anyway.

That's why I don't use the Dock to launch applications (except for a few
major ones which I'm nearly always running, such as e-mail and web
browser). I use DragThing, organised into tabs by functional groups. It
doesn't shift around arbitrary, and I can locate my frequently used
applications quickly.

I occasionally use Spotlight to type in part of the name of an
application and launch it directly (works better in Leopard).

--
David Empson
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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