RE: What help? (was RE: Help on Procedure Writing

[KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

I would have made it display the developer's work phone number...
and his home phone number...
and his pager number...
and his company e-mail address...
and his home e-mail address...

/kevin (not vindictive, oh no, not I...)

"Retribution, thy name is Customer."

Diane Evans [mailto:DianeE -at- LOCKSTREAM -dot- com] admitted:

> I was recently asked to write a help file for a small program.  The
> interface included a Browse button, which I could not find a 
> use for.  It
> turns out that the browse button was so that a developer 
> could browse to a
> secure server.  Even when this program is released to our 
> customers, they
> will not be able to browse to that server.  It took me 15 
> minutes to get the
> developer to understand how confusing this would be to our customers.
> 
> What did the "What's This" say for this button?  "Browse...", 
> of course.  I
> changed it to "This button is not functional in release 1.0."

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