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Post by Forum Cat on Sept 14, 2009 9:59:46 GMT
You know when you have seen something for years and yet never seen it? When you have a dialogue that pops up and you have a number of choices to click on like this one. I have never noticed the significance of the thin blue line. The dark blue highlight on one of the options is to indicate that you can hit "Enter" to select that choice. The one with the thin blue line round it means that you can tap the space bar to select that option if you so choose. How odd that I have missed it for so long. I don't suppose that I am the only person to miss something obvious. Do feel free to share. CC
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Post by Will Green on Sept 14, 2009 14:50:45 GMT
That's mad! All these years and I never knew!! Thanks Mr C
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Post by HeatherKay on Sept 14, 2009 15:58:56 GMT
Ditto. I've always used Command-. or Escape.
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Post by Forum Cat on Sept 14, 2009 17:32:13 GMT
I think "escape" is always mapped to "cancel". So if the thin blue line is round "cancel" then you have a choice of "escape" or "space bar". This tip therefore is more handy if the blue line is round some other menu choice.
At the moment I can't think of a dialogue box with three options but you might have a blue one, a thin blue line and the other with no line mapped to "escape".
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Post by Forum Cat on Sept 15, 2009 10:11:21 GMT
In other news… I have just found out that if you hit TAB the thin blue line moves from item to item enabling them to be selected with the space bar. *slaps forehead* It is amazing how much stuff has escaped my notice.
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