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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Jun 18, 2013 4:33PM

> Seems like your "We didn't want to do this" format would actually be fine.

My visual design team would kill me. Especially since it's really not just
two groups of three links, it's more like six to eight groups.

And, that's odd, I did have the document titles as hyperlinked text in the
email I originally sent from gmail. Maybe my or your email system formatted
it differently?

Thanks,
David


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Keith Parks < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

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> On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:55 PM, David Ashleydale wrote:
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> > We didn't want to do this:
> >
> > - Spring 2012 Quarterly Report (Word) <http://www.google.com>;
> > - Spring 2012 Quarterly Report - Summary (PDF) <http://www.google.com>;
> > - Spring 2012 Quarterly Report - Full (PDF) <http://www.google.com>;
> > - Summer 2012 Quarterly Report (Word) <http://www.google.com>;
> > - Summer 2012 Quarterly Report - Summary (PDF) <http://www.google.com>;
> > - Summer 2012 Quarterly Report - Full (PDF) <http://www.google.com>;
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> Seems like your "We didn't want to do this" format would actually be fine.
>
> If you have the document titles be the hyperlinked text, and eliminate the
> "<http://www.whatever.com>;" following it, that doesn't seem so bad to me.
>
> - Spring 2012 Quarterly Report (Word)
> - Spring 2012 Quarterly Report - Summary (PDF)
> - Spring 2012 Quarterly Report - Full (PDF)
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> - Summer 2012 Quarterly Report (Word)
> - Summer 2012 Quarterly Report - Summary (PDF)
> - Summer 2012 Quarterly Report - Full (PDF)
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> Unless your document titles are in reality a whole lot wordier or in some
> other way difficult to read, the downside of having some repeated words
> seems outweighed by the upside of clarity and simplicity.
>
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