[Tapestry Central] Infrequent commands

[Howard <hl...@gmail.com>]

Ann odd usability thought just hit me as I'm making some simple updates
to my slide decks in Keynote. Adding and positioning the page number is
not something you can do without using the mouse (to click the button
in the inspector and drag it into place). There's no menu item for this.
That's normally OK with me ... it's a very infrequent operation so why
take up valueable menu space (as well as valueable user comprehension
space) with it?
But the odd thing is that I think quite often, when you need to use an
infrequent operation you need to use it a lot at once. That's probably
why Microsoft applications have byzantine menu structures ... they
never want anything to require the mouse and from a usability
perspective they throw the baby out with the bath water over those
infrequent commands.
All I'm missing from Keynote is a simple macro-recording feature: turn
on page numbers, select it, drag it to position, update it's style. I'd
love to be able to run through my master slides (10 per presentation
times 7 presentations!) and just it cmd-m or something.
Of course, if Keynote had master-masters, I might be able to make the
change in one place per presentation (which would apply to the ten
masters and the 60 or 70 slides per presentation).

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Posted By Howard to Tapestry Central at 7/16/2009 09:38:00 AM