Ileen:
From my viewpoint, you are right on target about the printed manuals.
Gary Freeman
Missouri Prairie Foundation
At 04:26 PM 3/6/01 -0800, you wrote:
>At 01:25 PM 3/6/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>There are two major forms of documentation, online help text and printed
>>manuals. There are strong proponents of both. However if you look at the
>>questions asked on this list it is completely obvious that almost no one
>>reads the printed manuals. Their questions are easily answered by a very
>>quick look at the manual. It is certainly the case that on average most
>>major program producers have been moving more toward online documentation,
>>quite possibly because it is cheaper rather than better.
>
>
>I would encourage you to continue a printed manual option. I get
>frustrated with online instruction. I guess I'm just old enough to need to
>have the printed page in front of me so I can make notes, move back and
>forth between pages, etc. I would have had a much harder time learning
>ebase if I had been limited to only online help.
>
>Ileen Weber
>Membership Chair
>Pilchuck Audubon Society
>Everett, WA
>
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