I do not deny that I may be overestimating what Document Manager is supposed to do. Call me naive, but I would expect it to help users manage documents. :-) I suspect that it will evolve into something that does just that, but only after things like proper styles (and tables) support has been added to NW Ex.
At the moment, Document Manager only lists the files you have created using NW Ex. It would be nice to see someway of organizing the files within the list, either by applying categories, labels, or some other means. The current list only setup would soon become unmanageable after a few weeks/months of using NW Ex. It would also be nice to search for a document or documents within the list. At the moment, it displays a brief preview of the first few lines of a document, but this would not help you much if most of your documents are letters. Mark -- "This team never loses games - they just run out of time occasionally." Steve McClaren, 2000 At 3:46 PM on Wed, Feb 18, 2004, Rick Davis wrote: >Well, you may be overestimating what this feature is supposed to do. >Believe it or not, there are users who simply don't want to be bothered >with saving files, or habitually forget, and then complain later when >they can't find the file or lose their data. The Document Manager is >for them. If they decide a week later that they want to see what they >wrote in a letter, they can look at the list and find it from the first >few words. > >Maybe Document Manager will evolve into something else in the future, >but I don't know. If you have a good idea, suggest it. > >> OK. All this does is change Document Manager from an dubious "feature" >> into a very undesirable one. >> >> Creating a new document from the Document Manager, and then selecting >> Save (or using cmnd-S) to save the document results in NW Ex saving the >> files using the first few letters in the document. It does not prompt >> you >> to name the file, or ask where you want to save the file, even if it >> the >> the first time the document is being saved. This is not a good idea. On >> the other hand, documents do appear in the list even of you save them >> to >> a location of your own choosing, then use the Save in Document Manager >> command. This function seems to be very poorly implemented, IHO. >> >----------------------- >Rick Davis >rdavis at yin dot or dot jp >--------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive your first name your last name" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
