Hi technicsplayer
With regard to your last paragraph. By all means let us try new things, but as I have found recently I also need to go back and look at some of the "older" features of the instrument which as they were on previous instruments that I have owned I have overlooked what their full potential is and have also said to mysef "I didn't know that did that" Perhaps if I had known the answers to some of the things I obviously don't know then I may have been able to ask someone the right question.
A manual is great for telling you what features an object has. To get it to work you need a series of "workshops", step by step instructions which start of as "we are going to do this" and then we will achieve this.
I have only been reading this forum for the last month and I have been amazed at what I have learnt even in that short time.
Joan