[AccessD] About Manuals for your databases X posted

Hi Joe

> How many of you right them?

I write old fashioned help files only. They load extremely fast and
are quite easy to print out if a hardcopy is requested.
 
> Do you right users and developers manuals that explain your hows and
> whys?

For users only as part of a project description.
For developers (including myself!) only as in-line comments.
 
> In my forms, I do things like make non-visible fields red and bold just
> so they are easier to see if they are buried under other controls.

I use these background colours with black text:

  Yellow for invisible controls (mostly textboxes)

  Cyan for invisible controls for either future visible use or which
  previously have been visible (now invisible due to modifications of
  the form layout) and with a possible future use, though such
  controls must be tricky somehow, otherwise I just delete them.

  Green for invisible textboxes containing a function which needs to
  (and will) run when the form recalculates. These are rare.

  Magenta for invisible labels with comments or as pointers to
  controls hidden in design view by some larger controls.

/gustav