[AccessD] Microsoft Office Support - animated GIFs

Gustav Brock gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Apr 12 06:47:09 CDT 2018


Hi Jim

Yes, speed is difficult. If too slow, some will quickly run out of patience.

The trick with the arrows in the video, that directs to the next action, is a great help. The original GIF ran at nearly the same speed as the video if the arrows were excluded.

/gustav

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Emne: Re: [AccessD] Microsoft Office Support - animated GIFs

Gustav,

  Video is far better.

  As you said, the animated GIFs are hard to work with in a learning situation, mainly in that you cannot pause them.

  The GIF in the article you pointed to was too fast for me to follow.

Jim.

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Subject: [AccessD] Microsoft Office Support - animated GIFs

Hi all

Microsoft is currently busy with improving the support and help pages, focusing on those with a poor feedback.
Recently, I worked with Jeff Conrad to improve a topic I recall - in my early Access days -  to be difficult to get hold on, due to the total lack of visual help: Union queries.

The old article was lengthy and with much text, and for many - from the feedback to read - simply uncomprehensive.
So, I brought in the collapsible view used widely by Microsoft and some animated GIFs to make it more appealing.

While animated GIFs is a quick method to visualise things, they aren't easy to edit, and they are not that user friendly - you cannot stop the animation, and it isn't easy to start over, and - in general - users are more familiar with videos.
Thus, Jeff decided to remake them as videos. Only the first has been replaced, so the second GIF is still on-line:

    Use a union query to combine multiple queries into a single result
 
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-a-union-query-to-combine-multip
le-queries-into-a-single-result-1F772EC0-CC73-474D-AB10-AD0A75541C6E

What do you think of this format?

I'm not asking for "likes" (= This page was helpful). Rather, you should not, as you are not in the target group.

/gustav 



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