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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:"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
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> 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!
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