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Re: Advantages of Context Sensitive Help (to persuade people to have)
Subject:Re: Advantages of Context Sensitive Help (to persuade people to have) From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Carrie Baker <carriebak -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Jul 2006 07:06:34 -0700 (PDT)
First you said...
> I think Context sensitive help would be a good thing for this
> software product,
Then you said...
> Anyone got any good arguments that I could use?
> (As far as they are concerned even documentation is just "nice to
> have" and we were not told of major GUI changes).
To which I replied...
You said you think it would be a good thing. Why do you think it
would be a good thing? Those are your arguments.
You weren't just thinking it would a be a good idea without a reason
for thinking so, were you? If so, maybe they are right.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
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