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Subject:Re: "..navigate down the path.." From:Jo Baer <jbaer -at- mailbox1 -dot- tcfbank -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 07 May 2001 16:30:30 -0500
Hmmm. In my opinion this depends on what you can reasonably assume the user already knows. My instinct
would be to tell them to navigate to the whole path name, follow that with the first two or three
individual steps and then "etc. until you reach the yadda\yadda\yadda\yadda\thisone folder. After that,
I'd insert a graphic with the tree expanded to the level specified. This accommodates a couple of ways of
taking in information, and various levels of knowledge on the part of the user.
Jo
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Jo Baer
Senior Technical Writer
TCF National Bank
Minneapolis, Minnesota
jbaer -at- mailbox1 -dot- tcfbank -dot- com
If you can remain calm, you
just don't have all the facts.
Becca Price wrote:
> I need to give instructions for opening a folder in Windows
> REGEDIT to locate a key that is burried many folders (like 7)
> deep. For those not familiar with it, REGEDIT is set up in a
> tree structure, with little +s and -s next to folders. You
> click on the + to open the folder.
>
> Do I have to have a step for each layer the user has to click
> on? (Click on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder to open it. Click on
> the Software folder to open it... etc.) Or would it be
> reasonable to say something like "Locate the
> path\path\path\...\DBSetup folder"?
>
> -Becca
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