Re: Toolbar vs Menu

[Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>]

At 11:54 AM 11/18/97 -0800, you wrote:
>When you document a procedure, do you document the toolbar method or the
>menu/command method or both, and why?
>
I only document the toolbar method as an indirect way of explaining the
"intuitive" icons. The icons are there as shortcuts, and I want my users to
learn the fastest, easiest way to do anything.

I don't want to document both in a procedure because it clots up the flow,
and technical writing already has enough instances of misplaced concreteness.

Moreover, any fool (see the Idiots thread) can pull down a menu.

--Wayne
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