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Old 12-24-2017, 11:09 AM
Larry_1 Larry_1 is offline Windows 10 Office 2010 64bit
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Thank you, NoSparks!

Long, Long ago in the ancient archives of time, I supervised several new hires that needed to learn Lotus 123. I told them that their first task was to read the manual's index in the morning and again in the afternoon before they left for the day. Same the 2nd day. They only had to do it once in the morning of the 3rd day and the rest of the week. They didn't think that taught teach them anything, but it made them familiar with the terminology that Lotus used to describe the software. That familiarity made it much easier for them to then look up information that they needed to answer their "how do I" questions.

One of the main reasons that I so dislike the, now established, trend away from manuals is that I no longer have an assembled list of important terms that the vendor uses. Oh man, am I an old fart.

Very respectfully,
Larry
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