No, no, no, Pati. You certainly are Not too wordy. I have the kind of brain that wants to know how and why and so therefore. A simple 'do this' and 'do that' just doesn't do it for me. I have to have the whole picture to understand and retain. Polly
Pati wrote, in part> I have also discovered that explaining the whys and hows helps many people retain the needed info better. Although I have also been told that sometimes I am too wordy.