Hi Dan; Thanks for your reply. I wasn't initially looking for a response. My post was mainly a Monday morning vent. However ...
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 10:05 -0600, Dan Lewis wrote: > On Monday February 05 2007 9:47 am, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I just spent most of Sunday building two sets of permanent > > 'Styles'. > > [snip] > > I know these remarks are very general, but much of what I finally > > got was through dumb luck and I doubt if I could purposefully > > reproduce all the individual problems and mis-understandings here > > for comment [snip] If your reply was simply a warning not to frighten the dog, I will take it as that and drop the whole matter. If on the other hand I can be useful by taking a few hours over the next couple of days recreating my Black Sunday and analyzing where and how my problems arose I would be glad to do so and submit them wherever useful in the hope that any of these further comments don't just disappear into the aether. > One thing that did get through is this: you are very frustrated. Yup! > Then again, you also created a problem for someone else: the > person or persons who wrote the documentation. Now they can be just > as frustrated as you. That is because they do not know where to make > any changes to make the information more understandable: you have not > told them. I thought this mail list was ignored by the real fixers and changers. > Specifically, what did you consult in the documentation when > looking for help on styles? (Specific name please.) Give some > examples of some of the problems you ran into that took so much time > to solve. 'Help' = Styles 'Manual' = Chapters 4, 6,7. > Did you also consult the information about templates? If so, what > manual? (Templates are used to create a new document with a specific > list of included styles.) 'Manual' = Chapter ? Subsection ? Templates I also used suggestions made on this list several months ago when I was trying to make some minor style changes. > You see, without specific information as to your problems, there > is no way to make sure the next person will not have the same bad > experience. Then the time you took to write your email will have been > wasted because no really long lasting result will have come from it. > I am willing to help. ( My previous background is in writing reports and analysis of many and varied non-IT subjects. i.e. businesses and communications plans). But I don't want my time to be wasted. I don't mind if suggestions are not used because they are wrong headed or better answers exist. But I don't want them to be completely ignored and just be an exercise in futility. -- Regards Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
