D
Derrick
I find the Office help difficult to use for quick simple help items. Below
isan example. It's a bit long, but please bear with me - it's necessary to
make my point
In Word I select Format > Styles and Formatting..., which opens a pane on
the right side of the window. I select "Body Text" and open the drop down
list, which shows the four items:
Select All 1 Instance(s)
Modify...
Delete...
Update to Match Selection
I'm thinking that the "Update to Match Selection" might be what I want, but
am not sure so, I decide to hit F1 to get help. I *expect* this to bring up
the help on this very topic since I did have it selected at the time I hit
F1. However, it does not. Instead, I get the help pane on the right side of
the window. So, I type in *exactly* "update to match selection", figuring
that, for sure, this will bring up the help on this functionality at the top
of the list. Not so. However, I do find that the 4th entry in the result
list is called "Compare the formatting of two text selections". This sounds
like it might be it so, I click it. It brings up a *long* contents list of
items that probably deals with whatI'm looking for, somewhere in there. By
this time I'm too frustrated to bother digging deeper so I forget about it
altogether - I've got too much other work to be done.
Keep in mind that all I wanted was to be shown the Help screen for that
*specific* functionality that I had selected. The process above is *much* to
long to be useful for simple help items.
I use MS Office at work. At home I use OpenOffice, which has a much better
and easier to use help system. I encourage you to improve the way you do
help, as I'm sure that MS Office has significant features over OpenOffice.
But if I can't easily figure out how to use them - what good are they? And
no, I don't want to do training - I just want intiutive and easily accessable
help.
Thanks for hearing my concerns.
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isan example. It's a bit long, but please bear with me - it's necessary to
make my point
In Word I select Format > Styles and Formatting..., which opens a pane on
the right side of the window. I select "Body Text" and open the drop down
list, which shows the four items:
Select All 1 Instance(s)
Modify...
Delete...
Update to Match Selection
I'm thinking that the "Update to Match Selection" might be what I want, but
am not sure so, I decide to hit F1 to get help. I *expect* this to bring up
the help on this very topic since I did have it selected at the time I hit
F1. However, it does not. Instead, I get the help pane on the right side of
the window. So, I type in *exactly* "update to match selection", figuring
that, for sure, this will bring up the help on this functionality at the top
of the list. Not so. However, I do find that the 4th entry in the result
list is called "Compare the formatting of two text selections". This sounds
like it might be it so, I click it. It brings up a *long* contents list of
items that probably deals with whatI'm looking for, somewhere in there. By
this time I'm too frustrated to bother digging deeper so I forget about it
altogether - I've got too much other work to be done.
Keep in mind that all I wanted was to be shown the Help screen for that
*specific* functionality that I had selected. The process above is *much* to
long to be useful for simple help items.
I use MS Office at work. At home I use OpenOffice, which has a much better
and easier to use help system. I encourage you to improve the way you do
help, as I'm sure that MS Office has significant features over OpenOffice.
But if I can't easily figure out how to use them - what good are they? And
no, I don't want to do training - I just want intiutive and easily accessable
help.
Thanks for hearing my concerns.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-3092cadfebaa&dg=microsoft.public.office.misc