Darryl Collins
Darryl.Collins at coles.com.au
Sun Aug 3 05:48:49 CDT 2008
Personally I liked it when you used to get a great fat box that included a manual the size of a phone book when you purchased your software. I can see lots of good reasons why they don't do this anymore, but even so, I used to like reading those manuals in paper form. I am not a big fan of 'on screen' or PDF help - even though it makes total economic and environmental sense not to provide the manuals anymore. oh well... -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William Hindman Sent: Sunday, 3 August 2008 8:46 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor ...its funny but its not funny at the same time ...I still run a copy of the A97 help files simply because they are better than anything since ...MUCH better ...every once in a while you hear the MS Access team ask what we want to see in the next revision ...there is an entire site dedicated to a list of long standing bugs in Access, the help file prominent among them ...but what did we get in A2k7? ...the RIBBON from hell! ...and the bugs and no-help files are still with us :( William -------------------------------------------------- From: "Dan Waters" <dwaters at usinternet.com> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 6:13 PM To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor > Aaaaargh! That made me laugh too! > > Thanks William :-) > > Dan > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman > Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:56 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor > > ...hey! ...its as good or better than 70% of the rest of what's in the > "help" files ...imnsho, of course :) > William > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:33 AM > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor > >> Hi Dan, >> >> Okay, I get it. But, Microsoft has been putting those ads for 2007 in >> the Help items for long enough that I expected it and didn't get the >> joke. It's annoying and disappointing that they do that, but it isn't >> new to me. >> >> Yours is a perfect question: what are they doing putting advertising >> into the Help file? I would also like them to stop. >> >> Tina >> >> Dan Waters wrote: >>> You're not missing anything! >>> >>> What is Microsoft doing putting advertising into the Help file? That's >>> over >>> the top, even for them! >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris >>> Fields >>> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:20 AM >>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor >>> >>> Okay, maybe I'm just being dense here, but all the See Also offers is >>> the choice to buy Microsoft Office 2007 or a free trial of the Office >>> 2007 system. What am I missing? >>> Tina >>> >>> Dan Waters wrote: >>> >>>> In Access Help, look for 'Configuring the Microsoft Jet Database Engine >>>> >>> for >>> >>>> ODBC Access'. >>>> >>>> At the bottom click on See Also. >>>> >>>> I know I just got done saying this one's better, but do you have to put >>>> >>> this >>> >>>> in Help? >>>> >>>> :-) >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information and are intended for the named addressee only. 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