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RE: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guruquestion)
Subject:RE: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guruquestion) From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -dot- Brierley -at- ipc -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:22:10 -0500
Why? It's a visual clue to aid in readability by telling the reader the
table is continued rather than leaving it up to the reader to figure
that out.
Regards.
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Subject: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word
guruquestion)
<rant>
Every time this sort of thing comes up I read through the messages with
slack-jawed wonder... are our readers such dolts that they've never
encountered a two-page table? Why on earth do we need to add
"Continued..."
to the top of each additional page? Do we think they're not going to
turn the page and that the table having the same headings on both pages
is not going to clue them in to the concept that there was too much
stuff to fit on one page? And if our readers are such clueless bowbs are
they really the target audience we want/need to serve?
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