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On 2014-12-03 6:36 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/2/2014 6:03 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> Most of what I know about computers I picked up on my own. I find them
>> pretty much self teaching. My wife sometimes drives me craze with her
>> inability to deal with the computer. For instance... yesterday she had
>> a document that she could not figure out how to print. I told her to
>> try clicking on things.

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> (snip)
>
> Clicking on things all willy nilly is also a good way to screw things up.
>
> I wish everyone knew the old standard keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+P works
> pretty damn well in most applications.
>


Okay.... but if you were looking at a document in an application you had
been using for over a year, and you wanted to print something you were
reading on the monitor, what would you do?

Me? I would try left and right mouse clicking. As it turned out....
right click brought up a menu that included the print option. NASA was
not involved.