I'd love to have a list of exactly those features of Word that you actually use.
Mail Merge? Hanging indents? Tables (with math)? Styles Fine adjustments of line spacing?? . . . . . People object to "menus" but I find substantially everything within two levels below the main menu, which is no big deal. And I can readily document any feature I've discover as, for example, Tools => Macro => Record New Macro. There isn't any way I've found to copy-paste a toolbar icon into personally written documentation, so menus are the only way to document things. Aren't ribbons just a horizontal array of toolbar [command] buttons? I.e., a mild alternative to a toolbar? I already know what the "hot spot" is to view the hidden portion of toolbar. Where is the hot spot to unroll the ribbon? Much of the stuff that some people think is hot requires more manual dexterity than I have. And F1 help is mostly worthless. You have to know the lexicon of the application's author. If you call a feature by a generic name, it won't be found. So one wastes a whole lot of time guessing alternative ways to denote the process that one is trying to look up. Fred Holmes At 12:17 PM 3/24/2009, Chris Dunford wrote: >> The F1 key is very useful, but remember some of us are trying to be >> productive, and when you constantly have to hit the F1 key to figure >> out soemthing that you knew how to do on the old system, it gets old, >> and frustrating and you get rid of it. > >Constantly? That's what I don't get. I used help a half dozen times, max. >After that it's -more- productive because the stuff you need 95% of the time >is right there. A little effort at the beginning gets paid off very quickly. > >I really think the resistance is more to change than anything else. >Sometimes one has to invest a little before earning a lot. > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
