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Cool. I'm going to slip that "anachronistic mastodons" fix into my next
Release Notes doc and see if anyone notices.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Weissman, Jessica
<WeissmanJ -at- abacustech -dot- com>wrote:
> I'd avoid the repetition, and create a bulleted list in this format.
>
> Fixed these problems:
>
> * Pinkies were slipping; pinkies now provided with those cool rubber tip
> things
> * Anachronistic mastodons appeared in table headers; table headers now
> feature elephants
> * Alphabetical sorting by middle name column in reports reversed P and Q;
> now follows English alphabetical order correctly
> * Spell checker corrected all instances of "Betsy" to "Betty"; all
> nicknames for "Elizabeth" now considered correct.
>
> etc. Eliminate the second clause if it isn't needed, or set up a table
> with Problem and Solution columns.
>
>
> - Jessica
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