Patrick Schmid <
[email protected]> shared these words of
wisdom:
1.)
You need to choose first the target and then paste the
hyperlink where you want it to be.
I was really confused in the beginning, but then I found it out by
experimenting ;-)
At least in the German version there is a most serious problem with
the wording (I can not say for the English version):
The expression in the context menu says:
"Hyperlink diesen Absatz kopieren".
Translated into English this would mean:
"Copy Hyperlink into this Paragraph" - where the weight would be on
"into" meaning that Hyperlink would be placed in the current
paragraph.
By no means one might get the meaning of "copy a hyperlink to this
paragraph into the clipboard for later placement somewhere else."
The German wording just indicates the *opposite*.
The reason for this reversed concept is that there are just too many
targets you can link to
in OneNote.
This makes a lot of sense.
But things should be more intuitive and IMO it would need more
explanations.*)
Where could I report this serious problem in order to have the wording
change in the Final?
2.)
Another major problem IMO is that there is no indication that a page
or a section on a page is referenced by a Hyperlink at some other
place.
I think that follow the basics of GUI design it would be a Must to
indicate that an item is the "source" for a Hyperlink set somewhere
else; or the other way around: there should be a visible mark (a
semaphore) at each and any place which would be "target" where a
Hyperlink will set the focus.
F.e.: In the good old "Organizer" (Lotus Organizer) there was the
symbol of 2 chain-links which indicated that the item was linked
to/from somewhere else.
3.)
Finally (as said in some other thread):
The linking in ON is rather primitive.
In the above mentioned Organizer all links were "proactive" and worked
in some kind of a net of links.
Having a link set in the Calendar to an address in Contacts would show
up on both ends. They same when having a link from a Calendar item to
a note or form one address to another.
And all of these links formed a net.
So clicking on a the link icon at one of these places would open a
pop-up list with all of the link.
One of the main reasons why I have never been liking Outlook since it
first appeared (only use it because I'm force to because of the
connectivity with my iPAQ <!>) was the lack of linking functionality.
Awful not to be able to click on a link in a task to open the contact
data of a person involved in a task (project).
And I seriously hoped that ON might be more intelligent in so far.
Yes, one can use links.
But at very low level only [siiiigh]. As said before: IMO it's rather
primitive in so far.
Rainald
*)BTW: The local HELP (formerly HLP or OLH [for "online help"]) of ON
2007 in its present stat is very poor.
I assume that this might be the result of the old MS philosophy (which
so far could not really be implemented) to put everything on the net
and replace local installs by the possibility of gathering thins from
the net when needed?
Can one hope for getting more comprehensive Help-files once Office
2007 is ready?
