Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

Live Writer function key changes driving me bonkers

Is anyone else going bonkers from the function key changes in the latest Live Writer beta?  I'm pleased as punch that a Writer refresh was released, but the description in the issue list "Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views" is downright bogus.  I had no problem with F11 for Normal View and F12 for HTML View in the initial beta.  Clear, distinct, easy to remember.  But now it's CTRL-F11 for Normal View and SHIFT-F11 for HTML View.

I simply can't remember which is which.  CTRL, SHIFT, I don't know!  Geez, the last time I had to think this way was with WordPerfect 5.1 circa 1989.  Come on, folks.  One key does one thing, another key does another.  Now it is not only confusing but you need TWO HANDS to switch!  And of course they won't change it now, since changing it again will make them look stupid.  No, we changed it once.  It's an improvement.  Enjoy!

I wonder if the next Writer refresh will come with one of those cool function key templates that WordPerfect used to provide, you could unfold it and spread it out above the function key row.  Yeah, that would be sweeeeet!

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Posted on 10/4/2006 7:19:40 AM by Dave Burke
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10/4/2006 4:29:45 PM Permalink

Sorry Dave, I think you made a typo. You're missing the surrounding tag around the 'sweeeeeeet'.

At least, I hope you are Smile

Yeah, I'd agree with your complaint however. How about something standard, like how VS does it (and I think other post authoring tools like blogjet do as well) - ctrl-pageup and ctrl-pagedown to switch between different views of the same document?

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