If you are talking about web, here are some considerations I feel work in favor of long pages: 1. The browser Find feature CAN find text on the current tab/page, but CAN'T find it on another tab 2. Using Links at the top of a long page (instead of tabs) can get the user to the relevant text lower down on the same page very quickly 3. The text may be long because it is all relevant to a single topic, if so, the printing of it can be easier in a single page (dividing it up into tabs may NOT be appropriate) 4. Today it is generally accepted that page lengths are long and are preferred to additional navigation clicks IF the page length does so affect the page load time 5. Most users now have mice with scroll wheels, this makes scrolling quick and efficient ===>>>See http://www.useit.com/alertbox/tabs.html Best of luck Batyah Rubin
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