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2005 -------
SBA->CJ: I would like to point out that this summary"...DIALOG only usable for
experts" is not targetting the problem as I would describe it: "A new user has a
problem to understand the use of AutoText".
A tiny bit of "Competitive analysis": In MS Word, AutoText can also be inserted
via menu. This is very intuitive. The menu has a clear and intuitive structure
("Travel-Select-Use") while a dialog is always at least "a little" confusing
when the user sees it for the first time.
Dialogs have different controls (buttons, checkboxes, listboxes, radio buttons,
preview windows,...) that leave new users uncertain about "what will happen if I
try", especially if they already experienced that a dialogs layout can change
massively after using one of them! (Try Insert-Index-Index, use of the listbox
"Type" - This discourages the use of unknown dialogs.
In contrary, a new user always can feel "safe" while travelling through unknown
menus in order to "just look" for something.
Finding the AutoText entries themselves in the (sub-sub menu of the) "insert"
menu can raise interest in the this feature much better than the "most inviting
layout" of any "Edit-AutoText" dialog. Just my 2 cts.
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