Re: [Usability] An idea about representing groups of programs as one

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 00:00 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> A bigger challenge would be implementing a similar system for 
> selections that weren't necessarily files. For example, a few weeks ago 
> my mother asked me how to total some numbers she'd entered in a word 
> processing document. It would have saved a lot of time if she could 
> have selected all the numbers, gone to a menu, and had access to 
> Gnumeric's SUM() function.

Sounds like the sort of task that the Services menu is handy for in OSX.
I still enjoy playing with the Summarize service just to see what it
does to my documents :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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