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What term to use for the documentation?
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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>>>How about Functional Description? That's what I'm using in a current project.
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>>>Tamar
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>>If it is good enough for you, it should work for me too. And I like the way it sounds too. Thank you very much.
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>I am going to disagree with Tamar, which I don't do very often. To me Functional Description implies a description of a system from the user's POV -- what it is supposed to do. Screens, reports, menus, updates, etc. When you document a system's classes, methods, and properties you are describing the system's technical internals. It would be of no interest to end users or managers, only to developers.
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>I don't know a better term for your document. Technical Documentation maybe?
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>On your follow-up question about embedding flow charts and the like in a Word document, have you looked at Visio? It comes with some versions of Office as well as being for sale on its own. The last I knew there was a free 60 day trial version.

The Technical Documentation is what I call the entire Word file that documents classes, methods, features, etc. Therefore, so far, I can't think of better term that what Tamar suggested.

I think I did try Visio about 10 years ago. It was too complicated to learn. So I never went back. I am trying to cut down on my learning time <g>, so I was hoping something simpler and easier to learn.

Thank you.
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