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> I recently received a demo disk for QuickCard Development Kit by
> Usability Sciences Corp (800) 524-2794. If any has used this program to
> create cue cards I'd be interested in their opinions of it.
I've gone through their demo, and I was very unimpressed. Any good writer
can accomplish EXACTLY the same capability using WinHelp. All you have to
do is write very concise, numbered instructions, put them in a small
window (set the size of the window yourself), and set them off in your
application. You can have a menu for them, activate them from the a larger
help file, create a table of contents for them, whatever. As long as your
help file is reasonably small (and you can have multiple help files),
you get exactly the same thing for free.
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Software Interfaces, Inc. (713) 492-0707 x122
Houston, TX 77084
