On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:42 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > 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. >
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