[gui-talk] I thought I understood simple Windows concepts, but maybe I don't!

[Geetha Shamanna]

I had a similar problem recently with Word 2003. I bolded the text of the 
fourth column of a row in a table I was working on and then moved on, 
assuming that the text in subsequent columns would be displayed in normal 
style. However, to my amazement, the text in the fourth column of subsequent 
rows was also bolded. Since I had gone on too far in the table, I had to go 
back and change the text in the fourth column of all the rows back to normal 
style. This kind of behavior is too illogical for anyone to anticipate.
Geetha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Martineau" <dean at topdotenterprises.com>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:29 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] I thought I understood simple Windows concepts,but maybe 
I don't!


So I always thought I knew how to select and bold text in Word 2007.  I have
a line of text I want to bold.  I hit shift+end to select it, but I only
want this line bolded.  As it happens, there are a couple space characters
at the end of the line, so I hit shift+left arrow to unselect them.  Then I
hit ctrl+b.  What I thought I understood but apparently don't is that those
unselected space characters are indicated as being bold, and any text I type
after them is also bold.  I would have expected that only the highlighted
text is bolded and anything after it would not be.  I'm just amazed at my
ignorance.

Dean



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