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Subject:RE: Friday question: Your fave game From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:45:52 -0800 (PST)
I've had roughly the same experience in two events.
The first made so much sense I wondered if all
documentation shouldn't go to this illustrative
format. The second had me thinking it was too
inspecific, as I re-assembled a chest of drawers for
the third time :)
> I find the Ikea documentation interesting.
> Sometimes, it is easy to
> follow. Other times, though, it is so terribly
> confusing...I put
> together a file cabinet for my husband a couple of
> weeks ago. It took
> me forever to figure out which cabinet side went
> where, and which was
> the top and bottom. It would have been nice to at
> least show some
> measurements -- they could put the numbers in both
> American and metric
> measurements; most people can understand one or the
> other.
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