Adding my own two cents (about what it's worth) on the subject of wrist pain, in my now almost eighteen years of computer writing (first on a Radio Shack Model 3, then with Xywrite on pc's) averaging between six to eight hours a day, I have experienced finger and wrist pain in only the following cases: 1. Repeatedly using the mouse left click button. My forefinger would begin to experience a twinge with each click. Solution: switch hands, or (a much better solution) learn to make the same commands on the keyboard. I have found that one can reduce your mouse use to practically nil if you spend a little time learning the keyboard commands. The benefits, besides eliminating wrist and finger pain, is that you actually can work faster. Anyone who is a touch typist who does not learn the keyboard commands is wasting a lot of time unnecessarily. 2. Spelling checking a very long series of documents in Xywrite and repeatedly making the same awkward keyboard commands using the top row of function keys. Solution: Remap the Spell check keys to the numerical keyboard. This solution works for the same reasons #3 below works. 3. Writing a long manuscript using a keyboard that had too soft a touch. My old Radio Shack Model 3 was blessed with a keyboard that gave me a pleasantly resistant feel with each keypress. In fact, the resistant was strong enough and deep enough for me to actually REST my fingers on the keys between presses----much like an old manual typewriter! Keyboards today are so mushy that if you try to rest your fingers on the keys you end up pressing them. This mushiness forces you to keep your fingers in the air, a tense position which also forces you to put the entire weight of your hands on their heels just above the wrists. Very bad. Solution: get a keyboard with as deep and as resistant as feel as possible. Unfortunately, few keyboards today are like that. When I upgraded to a newer faster machine, I was very lucky to obtain an IBM keyboard that, though the key presses were still not as deep or as heavy as I'd like, still lets me rest my fingers on the keys between keystrokes. 4. I have also found that wrist and finger pain can also be caused by repeatedly reaching sideways for either the mouse or the cursor keys, thereby bending the wrist sideways and causing discomfort. Solution: remap the keyboard so that my cursor keys are very close at hand, and so that the most important and oft-used commands on right there, on the keyboard, rather than off on the right. I can see that the Wordstar diamonds that some have mentioned here in the last few weeks follow this same plan, and would work well also. In general, I have found that the wrist angle up or down has made no difference to me at all. I have never owned a wrist rest (which appear to have become almost standard on many keyboards today), and have no need for them. As long as the keyboard provides me the sufficient resistance, I can type for days on end with no pain. In fact, if the keyboard provides sufficient resistance I find that I can position the keyboard right on the edge of my desk so that my wrists hang off its edge, literally holding no weight at all. My hands are relaxed, with my fingers flowing over the keyboard, resting on the keys between keystrokes. Very pleasant, an experience that makes writing feel almost like one is molding clay. Of course, much of what I'm talking about here depends totally on my own personal taste. What works for me might fail for others. Bob ___________________________ Bob Zimmerman 13909 Briarwood Drive, #323 Laurel, Maryland 20708 301-604-2255