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From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons)
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Subject: A thought to make balloon help nicer...
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Date: 21 May 91 22:35:44 GMT
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According to Apple, Balloon Help is a very cool feature for first time users.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, those reminders like "this is a close box"
and "a hard disk is used to stores files" become aggravating very quickly.

Anyway, I think Balloon Help is a cool idea, if only it were changed a bit. 
Two thoughts come to mind:

1) Levels of Balloon Help (beginner (all help) vs. expert (application specific
	only)...)
2) Using the help key (or something else) to activate Balloon Help on the fly

What do other people think? 


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Peter Commons		
commons@cs.stanford.edu	
Computer Science Department, Stanford University