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This may be commented/answered like a question, and somebody may know relief concerning the help mentioned under “afterthought”. The subsequent text is, however, also something I want to be able to link to in the future.
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Questioners have problems and tend to take inadvisable action.
Contributors try to help and to provide advice again and again.
Doing so while commenting on or answering specific questions they take a lot of time, but the next inexperienced questioner won’t know about the hints.
The subject of this thread addresses an (imo) serious recurring case:
- ABOUT ATTACHMENTS
- Use the icon with the arrow pointing upwards. Do not try to create attachments by pasting from your clipboard.
This way you would get inserted badly formatted text or an image if you first created it by means of LibreOffice. Both cases not advisable! - If you consciously decided an image was the means of choice, first export what you want to show to an image file (
.jpgmostly) on your system and attach the file then. - However, an image should only be attached if the question is about an issue of the view. (Generally the value of images is gravely overestimated nowadays.)
- Even in such a case it will mostly be much better to create and attach an afflicted example document as a file (See 5.). Since the local settings (user profile) of a contributor may not allow him to view the relevant effects directly, you may additionally insert your image into the example document.
- Example documents should be versions of the document you had the issue with, and showing it, but cleaned from confidential information/contents, and reduced in size as far as possible.
- Keep in mind that the contributors you want to help you generally are users like yourself, and surely not hired by you. Understand that you yourself must take the time needed to clearly explain your issue. Often even an experienced user can’t answer a question based on knowledge alone, He (f/m) will often need an example for experiments. Don’t expect her (m/f) to create the needed example document based on an image!
=afterthought=
As far as I can see neither the meta thread “This is the guide…” nor the links to find there contain substantial information about uploads/attachments to be added to a post. In fact, I only found the keyword “upload” in one place, and there it was combined with the clearly unusual and irrelevant term “jump drive”.
I’m neither entitled nor interested in reworking the guide. However, I think there should be some remarks concerning uploads/attachments as sketched above.
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