[Year 12 IT Apps] On-screen user documentation

[Michael Torsello (Mr)]

Dear esteem colleagues

Perhaps I am dredging up something that have already been discussed but
...

In the "good old days", user documentation followed this general
pattern:

*	How to start the application and open the file
*	How to add new data and delete unwanted data
*	How to change existing data
*	How to print
*	How to save the file (including using new filenames)
*	How to exit the program

I am getting my students to create a single web page with an index
similar to the topics listed above with links to bookmarks in this one
page and using screen dumps.
And since this user doc is on-screen, it make sense to me to put a
button in the spreadsheet that links to this one web page.

Does this sound right?

But if it is in the spreadsheet then step 1 (start and open file) is not
necessary as you can't get to the user doc until you open the file. And
if they can open the application, can I assume that the user knows how
to exit too making the last step is superfluous?
Is my reasoning logical?
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With thanks 
Michael Torsello 
Director of Computing 
St Margaret's School, Berwick 
Ph: (03) 9703 8111 

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't
explain away afterwards. -- Rudyard Kipling 


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