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Names can also be changed within dialogue boxes. Any user of the Happy Hacker's souped-up version of Word who happens to click on print will then have to pick from a slightly non-standard set of print quality options--"Snail-paced," "Marginal" and "Ugly" instead of the off-the-shelf "Best," "`Faster" and "Draft...
...Happy Hacker frequently likes to use a bold type style when writing papers in Word. Before ResEditing his Word disk, however, switching to bold took several keystrokes (not to mention a lunge for the mouse); the menu had to be chosen and then the Hacker had to click on bold. ResEdit has allowed the Hacker to define the command-1 key (i.e. pressing the little squiggly key simultaneously with the 1 key) as performing the same function as selecting Bold on the Character menu; no more grasping for that non-teflon paded mouse...
Another way to improve a program's useability through ResEdit is to completely change around the command key options. In Word, for example, the Happy Hacker has given command key options to all of the selections on the Character menu (such as Bold mentioned earlier) and also to the choices on the Paragraph menu (Left-Justify, Center...
...command in MacPaint (this is also how icons are modified in ResEdit). Thus some of the uglier letters in the London font can be cleaned up. More practically, this feature is useful for creating special characters, such as logical notation symbols, within standard fonts. On one of the Happy Hacker's disks, there are no more asterisks in Geneva and New York instead there is the often-used `existential quantifier' symbol (an oversized backwards E that is a favorite of logicians...
...Caveat Hacker...