G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 06:17 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 16:03 +0000, Maurice Batey wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:11:44 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Use the Edit File icon to activate or deactivate the edit mode.
Exactly! What on earth is that supposed to mean?!
What does the tip say when you hover over the icon. What does help say
about resetting default styles, especially page styles?
Gerry, you have conflated two separate notes from Maurice.
The note you are responding to was about the Edit File icon. It's
true that the extended tip when you hover over the icon gives a
clear explanation of the icon's use, but the help text quoted is
not clear at all. *I* read that help text and said much the same
as Maurice did. I hope he will file an issue to have the help
text improved. I would do so myself if I had time.
>
Yeah. Multi-tasker failed. I meant to say that Help says
Edit File
Use the Edit File icon to activate or deactivate the edit mode.
You can enable a selection cursor in a read-only text document
or in the Help. Choose Edit - Select Text or open the context
menu of a read-only document and choose Select Text. The
selection cursor does not blink.
I think that Help entry is clear enough. The first line (which
was all you quoted earlier) really didn't tell me (or the OP)
anything, and I didn't look it up in the Help myself and discover
the extended description.
However, I've now attempted to look it up in the Help when my
only info is the terms "Edit File". If someone already knows that
"Edit File" deals with read-only documents, they can find the
entry in the Help, but there is no index entry for "Edit File"
and a search for "Edit File" turns up a huge list of items, none
of which as far as I can tell will lead you to this bit of
information. It's a classic case of "you have to know the answer
before you can find it" and the techwriters' maxim: "If the user
can't find the information, it might as well not be there."
This isn't your fault, of course, Gerry, but it does suggest that
I should file an issue about it.
Cheers, Jean
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