Best practices for hyperlinking in help?

[Combs, Richard]

Leonard C. Porrello wrote:

> My thinking has been along the same lines. However, I am concerned for
> the reader who jumps into the middle of a page and misses the
hyperlinks
> at the top of the page.

But YOU control whether (and where) readers can jump into the middle of
a page. You also control the length of the pages. 

Personally, I'd rather be presented with shorter pages -- or, if a topic
simply must be lengthy, a link to the top, not the middle -- instead of
seeing scores of hyperlinks to the same handful of glossary items. 

IMHO, YMMV, etc.

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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