Ditto. The current one I have been wrestling with is Table of Contents with MSWORD 2002. :) Apparently "MENU" was added to MS-DOS BAT in version 6. On 3/22/2010 5:13 AM, Alan B Pearce wrote: >> Marechiare wrote: >> >> Gerhard Fiedler wrote: >> >>> I do, too, and I agree. Most Microsoft documentation sucks; >>> >> Can you prove your words, please? >> > Microsoft Word and Excel help files would be a prime example. Try searching > the Excel help file for a given operation, and most of the time you get sent > on a goose chase. Often I found the only way to find out how to do something > was to record a macro as i did some operations, or if that didn't work, post > a message on the Microsoft Excel news group, and typically one or more of > the MVPs found there would have an answer. How they ever found out what to > do I have never found out. > > Then having entered the code in the VBA window, pressing F1 brings up the > info that the help system should have found in the first place. If the > documentation doesn't suck, the indexing into it most certainly does. > > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist