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Find options Jeff@unknown.com 06-30-2008
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Posted by John Pollard on July 1, 2008, 9:25 pm
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Jeff@unknown.com wrote:
> Because "CTRL and SHIFT keys while tapping the "F" key" takes
> 3
> fingers (2 hands to achieve, while clicking on "Next" just
> takes the
> mouse.

I can press CTRL + SHIFT + F easily with just my left hand.

As I think about the "old" way; I think that for some folks,
just "clicking on 'Next'" might be easier, but I think that for
other folks, CTRL+SHIFT+F might be easier. And I think a person
could learn a new way, and find that easier than the old way.

[I'm still not sure we are all talking about the exact same
process, since a strict "Find" doesn't have a "Next" option (you
can click on "Find" again to get the next "match").]

For myself, I have never gravitated to the key combinations for
my personal use; despite having "grown up" using command-line
applications, which sometimes forced me to use them. I don't
think the gui interface actions are "better"; they've just been
easier for me to adapt to - than to try to utilize some
combination of two worlds. I think that's because I
subconsciously try to measure the "consistency" of my approach
... and wind up disliking switching back and forth between the
gui and the command-line techniques.

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John Pollard
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Posted by Jerry Boyle on July 2, 2008, 7:17 am
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> Because "CTRL and SHIFT keys while tapping the "F" key" takes 3 fingers (2
> hands to achieve, while clicking on "Next" just takes the mouse. Question
> of preferences.

Doesn't that still leave you with 5 fingers and 2 thumbs to spare? :-)

More seriously, John has already conceded and I also readily concede that we
tend to prefer using the mouse, probably because it takes a lot more time
and mental effort to properly position 3 digits on small keyboard keys than
1 digit on a large mouse button.

I'd report this issue to Intuit - you might get your user option in a future
release.

Jerry


Posted by Jerry Boyle on July 1, 2008, 6:21 pm
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> [snip]
> That would be a "Find All"; a "Find" always finds in the "current"
> register, and doesn't produce "search results". Sorry I didn't make clear
> that I believed that the op was doing a "Find", not a "Find All".

You're absolutely right, I completely misinterpreted the question. It's only
by accident that my answer was almost right :-)


Posted by John Pollard on July 1, 2008, 7:25 pm
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Jerry Boyle wrote:
>> [snip]
>> That would be a "Find All"; a "Find" always finds in the
>> "current"
>> register, and doesn't produce "search results". Sorry I
>> didn't make
>> clear that I believed that the op was doing a "Find", not a
>> "Find
>> All".
>
> You're absolutely right, I completely misinterpreted the
> question.
> It's only by accident that my answer was almost right :-)

After re-reading the thread, I'm not so sure you misinterpreted
anything.

In any event, I'm still not really sure exactly what the op was
doing ... but I do think that between the two of us we have
possibly provided some helpful repsonses.

Frankly, I had not spent enough time looking at the ways that
Find/Find All/Search worked until you made your point.

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Posted by Jeff@unknown.com on July 1, 2008, 7:37 pm
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Yes, you both have been helpful.

I just got used to the older way where the Find window stayed visible. True
it sometimes got in the way (depended where you moved it to) but had the
advantage that it only took just one mouse click on "Next" to find the next
one. On my Windows XP system "Find ALL" always crashed Quicken 2006 and I
therefore could not use it. They seem to have finally fixed that bug in Q
2008 and I will therefore "find all" that more usable.

Different strokes for different folks. Allowing the option to chose if the
Find window minimizes or not would have allowed both groups to be happy.

Thanks for the help.

Jeff

John Pollard wrote:
> Jerry Boyle wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> That would be a "Find All"; a "Find" always finds in the
>>> "current"
>>> register, and doesn't produce "search results". Sorry I
>>> didn't make
>>> clear that I believed that the op was doing a "Find", not a
>>> "Find
>>> All".
>>
>> You're absolutely right, I completely misinterpreted the
>> question.
>> It's only by accident that my answer was almost right :-)
>
> After re-reading the thread, I'm not so sure you misinterpreted
> anything.
>
> In any event, I'm still not really sure exactly what the op was
> doing ... but I do think that between the two of us we have
> possibly provided some helpful repsonses.
>
> Frankly, I had not spent enough time looking at the ways that
> Find/Find All/Search worked until you made your point.



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