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Surely you're kidding right? I have never once found an answer in an F1 help in a Microsoft product. And I've been using Windows since 3.0. On a somewhat rela
by katastic 9y ago
Surely you're kidding right?
I have never once found an answer in an F1 help in a Microsoft product. And I've been using Windows since 3.0.
On a somewhat related note: Before wiki's, google, and stackoverflow became the norm, I used to love downloading CHM (compiled help files) references for HTML 3.x, Javascript, C/C++, and more.
- kw71 9y agoI use Excel rather infrequently but when I do it's for something complicated, I could not do anything in Excel without F1 help. Just Excel.
- Splines 9y agoWay back in the day, the help documentation shipped with MSDOS really helped me out. IIRC it had a colored text-graphical interface that let you look at all the commands and what they could do. Really helped out a young kid figure out how to write autoexec.bat/config.sys files so that his games could run. Being able to write menus so I could customize my setup for each game was so amazing. With the advent of the internet the quality of on-system help documentation has stagnated.
- m_mueller 9y ago'stagnates'. ha. what an euphemism.
- mattmanser 9y agoMy recollection is that help on visual studio and the old SQL server tool used to be excellent until they moved it online. Then it became uselessly slow.
- paulirwin 9y agoYep. I always installed the documentation CD and loved having fast access to API docs. But arguably Google is still faster.