Re: Dual Monitors [WAS: RE: Approach and estimation for a cleanup/conversion product - Word docs to FM and OLH]

Subject: Re: Dual Monitors [WAS: RE: Approach and estimation for a cleanup/conversion product - Word docs to FM and OLH]
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:41:15 -0700

You don't need dual monitors to work that way. I just alt-tab between
two windows.

My display is 1680 pixels / 17" wide, plenty wide enough to have two
windows open side by side when necessary--though I usually prefer to
alt-tab between maximized windows.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Paul Hanson <phanson -at- quintrex -dot- com> wrote:
> David, is this study publicly available?
>
> Paul Hanson
> Technical Writer
> Quintrex Data Systems http://www.quintrex.com
> email: phanson at quintrex.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Neeley
> <snip>
> A slight variation on this might be if you are set up with dual monitors (which in my view you should be--a study I was part of some years ago found about a 12% productivity gain in a docs department), you might have the text doc open on one screen, the Frame doc in the
> other...and move the pieces section by section so you are sure you don't miss anything in the process.
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Re: Approach and estimation for a cleanup/conversion product - Word docs to FM and OLH: From: David Neeley
Dual Monitors [WAS: RE: Approach and estimation for a cleanup/conversion product - Word docs to FM and OLH]: From: Paul Hanson

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