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Re: FW: Looking for points of view from visual learners
Subject:Re: FW: Looking for points of view from visual learners From:peemo -at- hotmail -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:42:15 -0600
Sharon wrote:
>
> It's just a text file that is the report they downloaded. Will visual learners
> do better if they see a picture of a sample text report? Will that help them get > the report they want more quickly/easily/accurately?
Sharon:
My rule of thumb is if the users may not remember the individual data
points in a report, or if there are several reports that are similar, I'd
give them a small sample with, for example, the column headings so they
can see at a glance they are going to get the data they want.
If not, I opt not to clutter the doc with extra visual aids.
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