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Swivelling monitors
Andrew Kennard (PCW December 2007, Letters) bemoans the fact that most screens are wide, not tall. However, many office workers would probably prefer to work in portrait style.
One of my clients recently phoned to say that she had touched something on the keyboard and was having to look at everything sideways. I discovered that this was not a fault but actually a feature of her new Dell, and that it could either be restored to normal with the supplied software or one could, indeed, turn the screen on its base.
Keith Paterson
Sounds a good idea.
But then i thought - the screens are now too narrow when on their side, unless you've gone for a huge screen.
My old 17" is 13.25 by 10.5
A wide 17" is 14.5 by 9
So turned on its side, we lose an inch and a half. Everything would seem crunched in. Pages would be 86% wide, so all the type would be smaller.
I would need a 19" screen to get up to a width on its side of 10.1", still a little smaller. But now the page is 16" tall, a bit excessive.
Oh, I know. That is for all of the ridiculous icon bars that the new MS Office 2007 uses. Talk about wasting screen space, now i know how to cope with it. (In future only, I am not proceeding past the trial of Office 2007, and am off back to 2003).
Posted by Jim Barton | November 17, 2007 9:27 AM