Thanks JRL, I hadn't noticed that. That'll help, at least. Having that functionality come out of the finder per se still seems like an odd choice to me. It was a very fast way to get back to a program one had minimized. The dock is less intuitive, somehow.

I sympathize, Porter, with your POV. One of the oddest things about the current Windows Office versions that I use at work is the erratic clipboard behavior in Word and Excel. I used to like Word; now I hate it. Getting the Pismo for my personal use has energized me to find a writing program that I actually like to use again!

And in any of the current OSs, moving files around from place to place is kind of a PITA. I tend to do all of my file move cleanups off the desktop in a clump of activity, because it can be time-consuming.