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To Disable or Not To Disable, That Is the Question

Joel Spolsky says don’t: Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there’s some reason you can’t complete the action, the menu item can display a message telling the user why. I thought it was pretty common knowledge that users don’t read message boxes. Anyway, I’m squarely in the disable-menu-items-that-aren’t-applicable camp, and I never hide items. Take the [...] Read More...

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Posted Jul 02 2008, 12:01 AM by Daily Dose of Excel
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