Find Menu Items in Leopard
TechnicalAll operating systems and applications, I think, once they've reached a certain level of "feature richness", suffer from a similar problem: They offer more functionality than can be conveniently accessed via the menu bar. In order to provide some level of organization within menus, developers are forced to nestle certain functionality deep within a menu hierarchy and menu items become difficult to find and inconvenient to access.
There may not be much that can be done with respect to convenience, but Apple's finally introduced a way to reduce the frustration of searching through endless menus for the option you're looking for.
From David Pogue in the New York Times:
Find the Menu. You're floundering in some program. You're sure there's a Page Numbering command in those menus somewhere. But there are 11 menus and 143 submenus, and you're losing patience.
In Leopard, the Help menu has a search box that appears right in the menu bar. If you type "page numbering" (or whatever) into it, the search-results menu lists the names of any matching menu commands. It also opens that menu for you, and displays a big, blue, animated, floating arrow pointing to the command you wanted. You'd have to have your eyes closed to miss it. (This works in all programs.)
I haven't seen Leopard yet (but I do have it pre-ordered) and I don't know that this feature is all that I hope it is, but it sounds incredibly appealing to me.
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