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Subject:Re: Previous, Next and Print buttons in Help From:Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, IanSaunders <ISaunders -at- syntellect -dot- com> Date:Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:27:44 -0800 (PST)
On a CHM file you need them because that operates independently of any browser.
On Webhelp, I think there's no need to reinvent the wheel. Even if customers want separate buttons, at least half the time their normal habits will make them use the browser controls anyway.
--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Saunders, Ian <ISaunders -at- syntellect -dot- com> wrote:
> From: Saunders, Ian <ISaunders -at- syntellect -dot- com>
> Subject: Previous, Next and Print buttons in Help
> To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 1:49 AM
> Hi,
>
> My team is debating whether to put Previous page, Next page
> and Print buttons directly into each Help topic (Web Help
> and CHMs), or to make do with those available from the
> browser (we use IE for web access).
>
> Is it standard practice to do this? I have been told
> that the trend is to add them, but don't I don't have enough
> experience of Help systems to comment. As an overworked
> author, it seems to me a waste of time, but if customers are
> expecting to see these buttons, I am more than happy to add
> them!
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Regards
>
> Ian Saunders
> Syntellect Ltd.
> Fleet, UK.
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