Hi Harold,
thank you for your comments.
On 13.11.2010 11:10, Harold Fuchs wrote:
In another thread in this list there has been discussion about the Help
in OOo. In reality I think it's only just OK. There are many examples
I've discovered over the years (I don't have details, mea culpa) where a
search leads to a completely unrelated topic. The example that triggered
this post was generated by the thread in question ("Suggestions" started
10 Nov).
We know the search function in Help Viewer is not optimal. To say it
politely.
We have many good ideas how to improve the search, but unfortunately we
do not have resources to do the hard work of coding. Volunteers are very
welcome.
The OP asked about Autocomplete in Calc. I created a blank Calc sheet,
hit Help and entered Autocomplete into the Index search. The left
(headings) pane shows "AutoComplete function in text and list boxes"
which is promising but then the right (details) pane shows "General
Shortcut Keys in OpenOffice.org" which is entirely unhelpful.
We now added some new index entries that should improve the Help.
...
It seems to me that there should be a concentrated project to tidy this
up so that (a) the index entries are made to point to relevant text and
(b) the help is made relevant to its context (Calc, Writer etc.) or is
made to explain that an option is, for example, only available in Writer.
Entering a bug report for each error one finds is far too laborious, not
only because the bug reporting system is such a mess - but that's a
separate thread.
Please send issues for the "documentation" component, with subcomponent
"Online help". It is almost as easy as sending an email:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/enter_bug.cgi?component=documentation
If you really cannot use IssueZilla, you may send an email to me or to
the documentation developers list: [email protected]
Only on rare occasions developers find time to read the discussion
lists. Please use the right methods to reach the developers, otherwise
your valuable contributions might get lost.
Uwe
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