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Empower User Manual in PDF anyone?

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I am trying to go beyond the basics running Empower 3 and do not have a lab copy of the documentation. Does anyone have a pdf copy of a user manual?
Thx
Rob
Waters don't produce a written manual for their software. I've been using it since the Millennium days. It's all in the online help guide.
Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
sorry, was that a misprint? You put the words "help guide" after "online".

(seriously, writing help-documents, whether online or as pdfs/paper documents, is a thing that requires real talent. This is the wrong place to say which manufacturers employ the talent, and which apparently don't. With some manufacturers, I detect a conflict between the desire to sell instruments with proper documentation, and the desire to sell additional training courses. It's easier to sell training courses to people who've just blown half a million pounds on an LC-MS system and now find they can't use it because the wretched help-file is utterly inadequate and doesn't include even basic explanations of how to set the instrument up, or what odd buttons and tick-boxes in the software actually do. Also one or two manufacturers have hoodwinked themselves into believing their software is so good and intuitive that it needs no explanation.)

rant over!
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