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[senit] Apologies for asking

John Bergin john.e.bergin at ntlworld.com
Thu Jan 31 15:20:54 GMT 2008

Article: [senit] Apologies for asking

I'm teaching an old gentleman,
a friend of some 40 years, some
computing.

He's a letter writing addict. (Only computing
as his ancient electric word processor has
finally gone kaput.) Very determined to
use e-mail to correspond with his
American circle of friends.

He has had a stroke that has destroyed
his fine motor control. A Mouse is
impossible for him to use. He won't
consider a joystick which I have mentioned.

And he insisted on a laptop.

Keyboard ok... fitted a big normal keyboard.
The slow touch pad is just about acceptable for some
controlling.

Best is a list beside him of keyboard controls
I've found so far.
In Outlook Express is there a keyboard control
for "send" please? 

Thanks. I'm the nearly one-eyed man leading the blind,
as you may gather. Sorry.

John






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