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Just one of the many reasons to avoid screenshots in help files...
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From: msawyer[SMTP:msawyer -at- callware -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 1996 12:54 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Hotspot hyperlinks in online help
Our engineers pulled a fast one on us and changed the look of every
single stinkin' dialog box in our Windows product, and they want our
online help for that product to reflect all the changes. They want this
ASAP, but I told them they'd have to wait a bit.
No _new_ buttons, mind you--just different-looking.
