RE: is more verbiage needed?

[Karen Mulholland <kemulholland -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

No, I read the whole thing.
But why demand that extra click?

Strip the information down to what a reader needs
right now, and make that whole logical chunk available
right there. Don't ask the reader to do any more work
than absolutely necessary.

When a spare topic is the gateway to three small and
similar topics, it's often a sign to streamline the
document structure by presenting the "target" topics
all in one place. In this instance, the information
would probably work well as a table.

KEM


--- "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
wrote:

> 
> Karen, you stopped reading Leonard's description too
> soon. 

(snip)
> 
> > Except for the header, each phrase is a hyperlink
> that expands a table
> 
> > containing the application's OS, hardware, and
> software requirements 
> > for each platform.
> 
> Those three OS names are merely the gateway to
> details regarding that
> platform (including OS requirements). 

(snip)
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