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Message: [QUOTE="Chad Harris, post: 5698986"] Yes you bet I'm reading it now. Thanks so much for having the extreme patience to stick with me. Somewhere MSFT ought to put up a glossary of the terms and pull downs in these dialogue boxes because even with a lot of books, they aren't anywhere near intuitive IMHO. The usability team could do more to explain them if they really want people to get out of the 15 year paradigm where 95% of Word users master about 3% of Word's features which is a waste of all the Word teams' efforts. They could put a glossary of all those terms like "keep with next" in Help and you betcha I'm going to to email them for all the good it will do. Think of all the people you helped over the years. How many of them can click that paragraph dialogue box up and understand the terms on the Line and Page Breaks tab which is another access point for Page Breaks that I don't know whether I should be using or not. Pam was using some of the terms they use or one of the books was. Look at Window/Orphan control Keep with Next Keep Lines Together Page Break Before Supress How would it be possible these terms are intuitive for the beginner trying to understand how to benefit from this dialogue box. Also there is Page Break configuration access from this dialogue box and a whole page break tab and there is just no way anyone intuitively knows what those terms mean. If Sinofsky's Windows teams set up Windows with terms as non-intuitive as that, sales would plumet and the world would collectively complain. ' A lot of us have strong motivation to master these features and the direct need and *we aren't lazy and we enjoy mastering these dialogue boxes and ribbon buttons and really need to use the features--(I think also that more people would use more Word features if they could find the way to learn to understand the non-intuitive terms on those dialogue boxes)*, and some of us are very advanced Windows users who can help and have helped any MSFT MVP when they can't boot or tweak certain Windows features. If we can find the place to understand how to use these terms we'd do it. I know the Word MVPs for years have gone out of their way to write up great articles like the one I'm going to read now, but MSFT's Word or Office Usability team should make more effort to make these terms completely available in Help. It's almost as if the advanced users who do understand these terms well have mastered some kind of "secret handshake" in some underground club. Thanks, CH CH [/QUOTE]

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