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RE: Help on Basic Word Operation (Or Not Basic Word Operation, but I don't want to argue the point)
Subject:RE: Help on Basic Word Operation (Or Not Basic Word Operation, but I don't want to argue the point) From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:58:32 -0400
> >
> > Word "pretends" that all the other documents are ACTUALLY
> WITHIN the blank
> > TOC document when you insert RD fields. So creating a TOC
> in that document
> > with the RD fields is Word pretending you were making a TOC from
> > one single
> > document.
> >
> > Microsoft ought to think about using something like my summary as
> > an initial
> > explanation. It would help orient people like me who aren't
> > totally clueless
> > about fields, but need to situate what they know into a
> meaningful context
> > with regard to RD fields.
>
> I doubt that Microsoft will be interested.
I say only that it "ought" to be interested -- that's all I say and that's
all I meant to say.
They regard RD fields as an
> obsolescent technology and keep pushing Master Documents,
> despite the fact
> that RD fields work and to a considerable extent Master Docs don't.
>
What they have done to the design of Word help is a virtual reversion to
unusable documentation. They present the help for the View tab of the
Options dialog box, for example, in a topic window containing more than 700
words through which one must hunt for the particular thing one is actually
interested in. Isn't that a throwback to a much earlier time? Why would they
do such a thing?
Bonnie Granat | http://www.GranatEdit.com
bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
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