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In our previous episode, Tim Huddleston said:
> Third-party books won't go away any time soon, even though docs are better
> than ever and improving all the time. (Compare the docs for Word 3 to Word
> 97 and you'll see what I mean.)
Was this intended as a joke? There is no hard-copy documentation for
Word 97; at least, not as packaged in Office 97. The sole hard-copy
documentation was _Getting Results With Microsoft Office 97_, which is
task-oriented and essentially useless for figuring out how a specific
function works.
The on-line help isn't bad, but there's no shelfware to speak of.
That doesn't bother me all that much for Word, but I would have liked
a manual for Excel and Access. Not to mention documentation for VBA,
which doesn't seem to exist in any form.
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