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: "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:14:36 +0100



>
> 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?

Preaching to the choir here. Reversing the "improvements" in the Help for
the Office apps though recent versions has been a recurring feature
conversations between MVPs and Microsoft. We will keep trying!

Regards
Jonathan West


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