Long time user of MW here, clocking in multiple hours per day of regular, intensive use.
So, one of my biggest bugbears is the number of times I need to reach for the mouse. When things are moving quickly, I like to keep my fingers on the keyboard as much as possible. Here is a short list of some examples of things that can be fixed/improved to make this rage-inducing annoyance go away:
So, one of my biggest bugbears is the number of times I need to reach for the mouse. When things are moving quickly, I like to keep my fingers on the keyboard as much as possible. Here is a short list of some examples of things that can be fixed/improved to make this rage-inducing annoyance go away:
- When there is a popup/modal/dialog window, one has to click the cancel button with the mouse to make it go away. "ESC" does not work on most modals (as it does on most PC apps). This is a frequent occurrence (several times per hour).
- With a cursor in focus inside a comment bubble or text box on a chart, "CTRL-V" will not paste text from your clipboard; it will instead paste some object in a random place on the chart that you might have copied to the clipboard previously. Instead, one has to reach for the mouse, right click, and click "paste". argh. CTRL-C similarly does not appear to work when selecting text to copy, again requiring a trip to the mouse.
- Keyboard shortcuts that I have re-assigned to something else often revert back to the previously assigned function. This occurs after restarting the app. Sometimes. Checking the keyboard shortcut preferences shows that the previously assigned function is no longer associated with the shortcut, however, so I simply relegate it to the status of an orphaned shortcut and use a different key combination. At some later time, the shortcut miraculously works again.