atw: Re: tips

Thanks Stuart (B.), Michael (G.) and Peter (M.) for
the tips!

Stuart wrote:
> In Firefox you can delete selected entries from the 
> list of recent URLs.

That could be handy, particularly if (like me) you
sometimes press Enter straight after typing a partial
URL (e.g. "goo" for Google)! (With IE, I occasionally
use RegEdit to delete those from the registry.) 

On a Web page, you can also delete entries from any
text box's "memory". (That's the list of old entries
that can drop down from a text box. It appears when
you press Down or Page Down in an empty text box, or
when your typing matches the start of an old entry.)
For example, you might want to delete your entries
after using an Internet café. (Anyone know a better
way to do so?)

To delete an old entry from a text box in Firefox,
again you highlight the entry in the list and press
Shift+Delete. In IE, you highlight the old entry and
just press Delete. (It's a pity IE doesn't let you do
that with URLs.)

Michael (Granat) wrote:
> Hold down ...control ...and turn the ...wheel
> ...zooms in ...and ...out.

That can be really useful when you're reading
HTML-based help, too (such as for Office XP). (Which
reminds me, the subject of "help on help" came up on
the list recently. Zoomable help text is fantastic, if
only people knew about it! "Help on help" seems like
an ideal place to document that, so the help is
self-documenting. By all means it could go in a
printed document too, but help has the huge advantage
of being on every user's PC.)

Peter (Martin) wrote:
> Continuous scroll with a click on the 
> scroll wheel can also be handy

Thanks! I've never used that before, but it seems
nifty. (A bit weird with the History pane open in IE
though -- the cursor varies slightly (and a different
pane scrolls when I move the mouse!) depending on
whether I click the wheel once (on the main pane) or
twice. In Firefox, you can click the wheel and then
just move the mouse to scroll the main pane, but not
the History pane it seems, and scrolling the main pane
diagonally is as bumpy as sliding down steps on your
backside!)

I'm a new user of a wheel mouse, so I'm not in the
habit of using the wheel much yet. No doubt it'll grow
on me heaps as I start to use it more. (I certainly
like the fact that I can just _point_ at a pane or
window and roll the wheel to scroll vertically.)

Regards,
Craig

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