I don't disagree with the things you state. However, this case is
particularly ironic. As I recall, the specialized/different behavior of
displayalerts (with regard to SAVEAS using other than the default choice)
that you refer to was not documented in previous versions of help (not sure
when it was added). This "problem" has come up many times in the newsgroup
where people frequently would refuse to try it as a recommended solution
because it was not the documented behavior. So, in this case, Microsoft
was reacting to a badly needed change. Unfortunately, they screwed it up
:-(


(wish I had a nickel for everytime someone had to say "Just try it").

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Howard Kaikow" wrote in message
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"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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I am afraid I have to disagree, but apparently you and Howard don't make
such errors. I make them all the time. I stand in awe.

eye kneeveer maq tiepink errhers!

Of course, some folkes do ,ake typing errors.
The real issue is that MSFT does not correct them, even in future
realeases,
when they know of the error.
Sufficient evidence is the KB article in which they admit an error in the
Word 2000 built-in Help, but did not fix in either a software update
(heck,
there are no side-effects from fixing such errors) or in later versions of
Word.

At worst, this is incompetence at Microsoft, at best, arrogance!