Chief, you can do a lot with a keyboard, but not everything. Arrow keys can take you from field to field, The little start button on your keyboard takes you to start on your screen, clicking the enter button is the same as hitting ok with the mouse; and then there are the function keys. <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q301583/"> Click here for a list of shortcuts on your keyboard. </a> But yea, I do think they take liberties on tv to save time. -- The HarmyBoard HarmDrive

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Date Posted: 15:43:25 10/01/07 Mon
Author: judi
Subject: Chief, you can do a lot with a keyboard, but not everything. Arrow keys can take you from field to field, The little start button on your keyboard takes you to start on your screen, clicking the enter button is the same as hitting ok with the mouse; and then there are the function keys. Click here for a list of shortcuts on your keyboard. But yea, I do think they take liberties on tv to save time.
In reply to: The Chief 's message, "Computers on tv...." on 10:43:34 10/01/07 Mon

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[> First, *I* really think they have characters typing furiously because it can convey urgency more than frantically moving a mouse around and clicking .... there's also the typing-sound-effects! LOL! That said, one *could* argue that it's ONE thing to be using some application to do whatever (clicking on icons) and another to be programming or RE-programming. I usually get the impression (and it's probably because to me, typing furiously suggests actually programming under pressure) that those characters workign against the clock or while a bomb is ticking and pounding on the key board are programming trying to get fix or change whatever and so typing is what they'd be doing rather than "mousing". -- MichelleB (former nerdy programmer), 18:07:44 10/01/07 Mon [1]

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