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AGB <not@home.com> wrote:

> In article <6c291e29.0201261253.64d272c9@posting.google.com>,
>  carabraude@hotmail.com (Cara) wrote:
> 
> > Im learning Quark right now..I printed this great 300 page tutorial by
> > Quark Express from there website called QuarkEd. Its great!

> How many people do this? That is, print out something meant to be viewed
> on the screen? My boss prints out all his email. I think it makes him
> feel busy or important or something. Whatever happend to the paperless
> office? We are drowning in paper!

Printing out all your email is ridiculous.  Printing out tutorials or
manuals is not.  I do it fairly often.  It's much easier to learn
something when you can have the book and your actual work open and out
at the same time.  Flipping back and forth between Acrobat or some other
document reader and whatever program you're trying to use/learn is a big
PITA.  

I only find it makes sense if I basically know the program and just need
a quick lookup.  It's not too bad for some things if you've got two
monitors or a big enough screen.  But for learning a graphical app like
Xpress, it's nice to have the whole screen just for the app, no matter
how big it is.

Printed references are also a lot easier to scan for things if you can't
come up with good search terms because your vocabulary and the manual
writer's don't agree.

Trying to skim through a 400 page PDF file for something takes forever
compared to doing the same thing with a printed manual.

Having purely electronic manuals and tutorials will make sense to me on
the day that electronic browsing is as fast and easy as flipping through
a book, and when the average user has a 29" screen with 4 megapixel
video.  Ain't happenin' yet.  


Michael

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