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Subject: Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guru question)
From: "Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>
To: "John Posada" <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:07:28 -0600

I always rely on the headings of the tables being different to tell the user that I've started a new table.

There are a lot of things I could do because they're nice but I tend to filter my desire to do nice things by the value they add for the vast majority of my target audience. If I think the vast majority of my target audience would be served by something... if they'd find it useful... I'll put it in. If it's just nice or only addresses the one or two users who are so clueless that I'd revoke their software license then it doesn't go in. Otherwise I'd end up putting in "Click with the LEFT mouse button..." all over the place.

Hmmm... maybe a picture of a cute kitten in each table heading. That'd be nice <grin>.

Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Posada" <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>; <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guru question)

I have somew documents that have consecutive tables. Those same
document have some tables that span pages.

All continued does is tell a user if a new table is starting or if
the table is continued.

It's not mandatory and I don't ding documents that doesn't use this
convention, it's just nice.

--- Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com> wrote:

<rant>
Every time this sort of thing comes up I read through
the messages with slack-jawed wonder... are our readers
such dolts that they've never encountered a two-page
table? Why on earth do we need to add "Continued..."
to the top of each additional page? Do we think they're not
going to turn


John Posada
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