[senit] Apologies for asking

I'm teaching an old gentleman,

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From: "John Bergin" <john.e.bergin at ntlworld.com>
To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: [senit] Apologies for asking


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