We spoke at our initial meeting briefly about how to identify PDF and DOC and RTF versions of forms. Do you repeat the name of the form each time like this?
Real Good Form [PDF]
Real Good Form [DOC]
Real Good Form [RTF]
I don't recall what great answers we came up with. Can anyone help out?
BTW, I like to use the brackets for enclosing the document type information. That way if it's in a sentence that includes a parenthetical phrase, I don't have to worry about inserting parentheses inside parentheses.
Posted by bullwink at April 28, 2005 6:39 PMThe format that you used in your post is the convention I follow. Labeling document links in ANY way is important. I can't count the number of times I've clicked on an unlabeled link that I wouldn't have clicked on if I had known it was going to be a document!
Does anyone post DOC (Word) documents? I always thought that was discouraged as not everyone has Microsoft Word...
Posted by: Karen Bencke at May 10, 2005 10:28 AMWe post Word documents motly on the intranet. I think there are forms and probably committee meeting minutes posted as Word documents. Not a big deal since we all have Word.
A few departments offer their forms in either Word or PDF. Stats show that both get used. I think .doc files can confuse users who open it inside IE instead of downloading it.
Do you think it's necessary to post the size of the PDF? I used to but stopped since people didn't seem to understand what size would count as a huge file.
Hey can I complain about what I hate about PDFs? I hate downloading huge files and then discovering that they don't have bookmarks set up.
Posted by: Kristeen at May 10, 2005 12:54 PMI do find it useful when people post file sizes, but I do not always post them. I don't think enough people know how to set up bookmarks in their PDFs or URLs. How about an overview at your next meeting?
Posted by: Karen at May 18, 2005 8:10 AM