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So those rules should not be applied to procedures, except perhaps in
rare instances when people need to memorize them.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Yves Barbion <yves -dot- barbion -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> And on page 130: "The traditional guidelines on the number of items in a
> list that users need to remember are:
>
> - Seven items maximum for online documentation
> - Nine items maximum for printed documentation"
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