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Article #146334Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!
From: J. Benz
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00
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Dan Strychalski wrote: > > > German and Swiss Q W E R T Z U I O P > A S D F G H J K L > Y X C V B N M > Ah yes. On a recent trip to Germany, I was faced with the deceptively daunting task of writing program documentation in MSWord, using a German keyboard with the keycaps laid out as above. But since I was working in English, and didn't know what all the German menu prompts meant, I had to set Windows up as American/English. So now, although I could type normally, as long as I didn't look at the keyboard, whenever I did look, I couldn't even type my own name! And then, when I put the documents on floppy and flew home, and loaded them up in Word on my own PC, all kinds of wierdness happened, since the MSWord in Germany was set up for the European paper sizes - something like 9x11.5 in inches - and all my documents had to be reworked, since they contained a lot of tables and illustrations...formatted to the wrong size page.
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