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Subject:RE: Display, Displays, or Appears From:"Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com> To:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>, "Chinell, David F (GE EntSol, Security)" <David -dot- Chinell -at- GE -dot- com>, "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:35:43 -0700
Yes. They are often like directions to a doctor's office that start
with, "Exit the elevator to the left, and proceed to suite #124." No
mention of floor number or even building address.
Leonard
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I think it's possible that the writers of Help (and such) for The GIMP,
OpenOffice, and several other programs might not have embraced the MMoS.
I often find that instructions for performing a task start with a menu
or option but don't tell me how I got to that menu. I then start looking
through all the menu-bar items, then right-clicking everything in sight,
then trying other measures to invoke this-or-that tool-bar that (I might
not know until I open it) is the place to find the menu I needed.
Of course, since Microsoft began having most of their MS Office Help on
their servers, instead of on my computer, I also find that I encounter
"chunk" task instructions that don't identify how one gets to the
chunk's starting point.
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