The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83421   Message #1533380
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
02-Aug-05 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: Noteworthy. Honestly!
Subject: RE: Noteworthy. Honestly!
Once I gave a learned lecture on contemporary proverbs. "When all else fails, read the manual" was one of the proverbs. In my view, this proverb can be taken two ways. When used sarcastically, the speaker is sneering at the listener for not reading the manual. However, I believe that it's usually used to mean that the manual is so badly written that one would only refer to it as a last resort.

One of my favorite bits of Help was in the manual for a sound card I used to have. It said "You can paste a Whatever file to an OLE client."

To me, to paste someone was to hit them with your fist, and a client was a paying customer. I had no idea what they were talking about. Now I realize that the language was that of a computer expert. Since a person like that wouldn't need the help, what was the point?
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Setting aside the foibles of Help, I hope that people will pick up on my discovery for using Noteworthy more efficiently and will start playing and sharing more music. I think that this quicker method might work for other music programs, too.