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Charles2222 -> RE: Just spent 25 dollars printing out manual. Dumb Move? (2/28/2008 12:13:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: castor troy
Without the printed manual I wouldn´t have got started with the game. Printed and read most of it at the office too... [;)] Even though I think it´s a poor manual, 95% of what is written is true - at least...
if (very rarely) I have too look something up now, then I use the pdf search function of course but if you have to read it for the first time, what should you look for? Especially if you´re a non native speaker!
I admit the pdf is a real downer to read, so, I don't. Oh some areas catch my interest in the beginning, but at work I learned so much the great benefits of how to easily search an unread database as opposed to having read somethign similr in book form and then continually saying to myself as I'm looking for it in a book "Uh, well I think I saw that in this section. No, it was that section. No?" With a lot of database searches, at least with the WITP adobe, you just need think of a common word and off you go, since it pulls up EVERY instance of that single word in the entire document. So the trick is to think of a word that isn't all that common that is very likely to come up when describing what you're looking for. Since the search, if used correctly will give you every instance of that word, you can click the link and go immediately to it. Once there, you can probably almost spot instantly whether that link was the one you were after. My ability to do that alone, at work, has made a tremendous difference on whether I gave up totally on something because of such a huge amount of documentation, or elsewise never spent more than 15 minutes, usually less than five minutes, finding exactly what I wanted. It really freed me up from trying to memorize so much garbage at work, and that's all the more important when you not only work in IT, but when you're also having to wing it alone often enough.
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