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RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway"
Subject:RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway" From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:35:20 -0500
What's wrong with drop-down and expanding text? Did your users find it
annoying or difficult to follow?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:28 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway"
>
> ... Because you'd need to understand why you were making
> a choice, I'd have to either explain the next bunch of
> options right there on the page (which can get tedious if
> you're just looking for _your_ next step), or I'd have to
> have the thing bristling with links, or I'd have the page
> be 90%+ of dropdown and expanding text...
>
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