RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway"

["Barbara Vega" <BarbaraV -at- libertyims -dot- com>]

Oooh I like that quote! 


Barbara Vega
Documentation Department
Liberty IMS

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Subject: RE: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway"

One could add that Google's greatest disadvantage in comparison to Help is that [good] Help tells you  where to start and when something is finished.
  Google can go on and on and on and ...
  
Help is a tool for limiting information about a topic; Google expands the scope of information. That's just the opposite of what a user needs from documentation. Research is not what a user is doing.
  In _About Face_, Al Cooper sums it up: "A user would rather be succesful than knowledgeable."
   
   
  YJ

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