RE: Most embarasssing error (was Finding errors in manuals)

["Van Boening, Tammy" <tammy -dot- vanboening -at- Fiserv -dot- com>]

So, I was the author of a hardware manual for a training class for a
bunch of truck drivers years ago - seriously, the Hooters T-shirt, let's
go to a strip club after work kind - and this made it through in the
manual (to my absolute horror and to their absolute delight) -

Instead of "tighten the wrench", it was "tighten the wench" - ah yes -
that helped break the ice in the class. After something like that, I
rarely get heartburn over a typo or two in a manual.

TVB

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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:00 PM
To: Connie Giordano; Michelle Vina-Baltsas; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Finding errors in manuals

Connie Giordano wrote: 
 
> I literally just came across this in a manual I'm editing right now:
> 
> "Press <ENTER> to exit:"  Hope that makes you feel better ;-)

Well, it sure looks funny, but it's not necessarily _wrong_. 

After all, we Windows users click Start to quit. ;-)

Richard


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Polycom, Inc.
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