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Subject:Re: "Notes" column in the manual?!? From:Glen Accardo <glen -at- SOFTINT -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 8 Jun 1994 13:22:08 CDT
> My company's training department wants our manuals to include a column
> on every page for notes. They claim that our customers have regularly
> asked for this, so they can write notes during class.
I once had similar requests. I solved them by printing the same manuals
on bigger paper, which pretty much made everyone shut up. I personally
don't write in manuals (unless I'm correcting them), and favored a truly
inspired solution: a tablet for notes. We actually had nice tablets
with our company logo on them and could have supplied them, but training
people wanted space on the page. Go figure.
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glen accardo glen -at- softint -dot- com
Software Interfaces, Inc. (713) 492-0707
Houston, TX 77084
