Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guru question)

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Yep. Looking at a representative manual from MS press (Word 2002 Inside 
Out), they use the terminal bar, and now also use the Continued note 
where the table breaks, AND where it resumes. I guess this makes up for 
their use of the repeating header row, which makes no visual distinction 
between the beginning of the table, and the place where it resumes. 

I think there was a time when MS UE added a distinctive bar at the 
beginning of the table--it was some fiddly thing like a tiny paragraph 
mark, formatted with a top border--but again, I have to qualify this as 
my memory.  I haven't worked with MS User Ed design since the early 
1990s, and it is entirely possible that I've repressed the real memory 
of how that trying bunch of styles and autotext bits was supposed to work.


Good luck,

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com


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