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Gild Spitz says:
> The documentation for the
>obsolete functionality takes about 100 pages of the Ref Guide, and lots
>of HTML pages in the online help.
>I've wanted to get rid of those pages for a long time, but only if the
>functionality was stripped out of the software. After much pleading, I
>finally got upper management to agree in principle - but it turns out to
>be more trouble than it's worth, from a programming point of view.
>So now they've asked me to just delete the pages in the documentation,
>even though the functionality still exists, and still works. But this
>means that certain dialogs and menu picks would still appear in the
>software, with no explanation in the docs.
Can you create a one-page (single topic) reference section, to which all the
dialogs and menu picks to do with this obsolete functionality lead, where
you can simply say "This functionality is now replaced by - " Tool XXXX.
That way, if anyone looks it up, they'll find *something* - and that
something will point them where you want them to go.
Jane Carnall
Technical Writer, Digital Bridges, Scotland
Unless stated otherwise, these opinions are mine, and mine alone.
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