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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 13 00:01:30 +0000 
2007 -------
I fear renaming "Feldbefehle" into something different will have the same effect
that renaming "Stylist" into "Formatvorlagen[-Fenster]" or "Format > Seite" into
"Format > Seiteneinstellungen" had: All documentations need to be re-written,
but the basic problem, and that is that an untrained user does not understand
for what "Stylist" or "Feldbefehl" are good, persists. That is to say: if you
need to explain the formatting concept with styles or the possibilities of
fields anyway -- think of fields with fixed content (e.g. date) or, even more
simple, the field "date" in an other format than DD.MM.YY -- it doesn't matter
whether they are called "Feldbefehle", "Variablen" (we already use this term for
something else!), or "so graue Dinger".

I would agree that moving e.g. the fields "Date" or "Page Number" from the
sub-menu "Insert > Fields" directly into the menu "Insert" will probably make
them easier to find for a user without any training and without any willingness
to read the online help and/or a FAQ. But it will make it notably more difficult
to understand (and to explain!) that you can insert the date of the day with,
say, "Insert > Date", but if you don't want that it auto-updates and/or you want
it in an other format than DD.MM.YY, you need to use a completely different
dialogue and learn completely different terms (i.e. "Feldbefehl" or whatever).

I hear users very rarely ask "how do I insert the date of the day" or "how do I
insert the number of the page"; they far more often ask "how do I change the
format that is used for the date of the day" or "how do I insert the page number
on all pages (except page 1)". From that point of view, usability will not
increase if e.g. "Date" and "Page Number" were located in the "Insert" menu.

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