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Subject:Re: writing See Also's in on-line help. From:Damien Braniff <Damien_Braniff -at- PAC -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Thu, 2 Oct 1997 09:33:40 +0100
Agreement with previous replies. One thing I would say is to keep the See
Also list reasonably short. We generally use it on "screen help". Help on
screen will tell the you HOW to do something (print, add user etc). This
is usually what the user wants. THe See Also can then be used to provide
"background info" if the user wants to investigate more. Plus of course the
usual related topics etc.
Damien Braniff
Technical Author
PAC International
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