The biggest difficulty about "learning menus" like the ones in Office 2000 is the training aspect of it.

I work at a company which creates computer-based training for Windows apps, and you wouldn't believe how hard it is to work around that stuff. In the old days, we simply used to say "click on tools, then click on options." Now we have to qualify that with ten paragraphs of explanation about the learning menus.

And don't get me started on how difficult it is to simulate that behavior in a live training app...

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Tony Fabris