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Subject:Re: user guide or help From:Suzy Davis <andavis -at- AU1 -dot- IBM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:48:29 -0500
Funny, I was just thinking about the same thing.
I use "Help" for the kind of online user manual you describe because it is
accessible through the application. I use "User Guide" for any hardcopy or
online book which is separate to the application. For example, I can load a
copy of the Word 97 guide on my computer which, if I loaded it, would be
separate to the Word application and Word's online Help. If this manual was
accessible through Word itself I would call it "Help".
It doesn't matter to me what the structure of the online Help as to whether I
call it Help or the manual it is how I access it.
Suzy Davis
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