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Subject:Re: suggestions for documenting unlabeled fields From:Jan Stanley <janron -at- CONCENTRIC -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:32:02 -0400
It's really tricky when you're up against the company president.
Maybe you could appeal to his financial sense:
If the fact that a control isn't labeled means that you have to
write a couple of sentences or a paragraph where a single phrase
or sentence would do, you're (1) using more of your time than
necessary, which costs the company money, and (2) increasing the
size of the documentation (if it's paper), which means printing
is more expensive, which...costs the company money.
