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Subject:Re: Toolbars From:Karla McMaster <mcmaster%pcmail -dot- cti-pet -dot- com -at- CTI-PET -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:26:47 EST
In general, I stay away from using toolbars. I think my attitude is
colored by a bad experience I had with Word, once. I wanted to
accomplish something, I can't remember what, and the manual told me to
"click on the (imagine an icon here) tool." Well, I didn't see that tool
anywhere. It took me awhile to figure out that I had to modify the
toolbar before I could perform a relatively minor function. I was
disgusted. The function may have been available in some other way, but
the manual didn't mention it...
Karla McMaster, technical writer
CTI PET Systems, Inc., Knoxville, TN
mcmaster -at- cti-pet -dot- com
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