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Subject:Re: Re. An index in service manuals From:DURL <durl -at- BUFFNET -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:56:41 -0400
Hi Barb...
Do you have any info about the client--that is, the kind of
industry and the kind of manual/book?
TIA,
mary
Mary Durlak Erie Documentation Inc.
East Aurora, New York (near Buffalo)
durl -at- buffnet -dot- net
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Barb Philbrick wrote:
>
> One of my clients did a user survey and found that most users
> preferred page flipping over every other method. They decided not to
> use indexes because of this, and concentrated instead on how to make
> page flipping work better.
>
