[Tim Hill]

Wow, thanks to everyone for getting back to me in this. Some great suggestions and ones I will try out.

Yes, I confess I'm not a power user, but i'm not a casual hacker either. As a result i'm kind of stuck in the middle and trying to remember to hold a magic key combo down to do just what I need isn't that intuitive (side rant: imho this is one area where OS X is weak, it still relies far too many magic combo keys).

However I'll investigate further, but in my defense I HAVE spent some time carefully reading the online help, and looking for stuff like snapping magnets to the grid, but it's pretty buried.

Anyway as I said I'm a great fan of OG and these were annoyances more than "omg this sucks" nonsense. Thanks again for all the suggestions folks, I'll have fun trying them out.

--Tim