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MacBook Pro i7, 17". iPhone 4 (32GB). Magic Trackpad., Mac OS X (10.6.5), No Windows here
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MacBook Pro i7, 17". iPhone 4 (32GB). Magic Trackpad., Mac OS X (10.6.5), No Windows here
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
No, and no need.
Jerrold Green1 wrote:
Marlin,
The only time I prefer a Toolbar icon over a key sequence is when it's for a command that I use so seldom that I can't remember the shortcut. That's certainly not the case with Save.
In any case, I hope that you took advantage of the 30-day free trial of iWork. Better to be happy to leave than to be unhappy and having to stay.
Jerry
OrangeMarlin wrote:
Lastly, if Apple had chosen to make an autosave feature available, I wouldn't have even asked this question.
I found this interesting discussion through a search for 'save icon' in Pages. I support orangemarlin on this - not having a save icon in the tool bar ia a real pain! (and if that makes me a "doozie" so be it). If I am resizing shapes and so on in a document then my hand is already on the mouse; I don't want to have to move it to a keyboard just to save. Even when I'm typing text (in Appleworks), I will move my hand to the mouse to save and pause for thought while I do it.
This thread has answered my question though and I am grateful to those of you who provided answers and info to the original poster.
"Imagine how well you'd play the piano if you had to reach for a mouse and toolbar icon every minute." This is not a good analogy; pianists often have to turn the pages of the music, by moving a hand away from the keyboard, and we do so for the most part without interrupting the flow of the music at all. 😉
upgrade to lion's autosave
We do not have both hands on the mouse, nor the page turning if we are a pianist, the other hand stays busy.
The standard method is thumb on command key, pointer finger on keyboard shortuct, in this case s.
I gather you are an ex PC user, whom I find painful to watch.
For PC users this a pain as the control key can only be managed with your pinky and that is really awkward. So having created the problem, just to be different from Apple, Microsoft went overboard on masses of badly designed icons that take away most of the top of your screen. For years, until they got bigger screens, PC users peered through the tiny porthole in the middle of the screen into what was left of it after being obscured by the completely unnecessary clutter of the "User Interface".
This is the reason the Mac interface looks so clean on the screen.
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