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What can Kate Winslet teach you about proof-reading technical documents? Watch the movie The Reader and it will make sense. If she was writing this blog, she’d probably say: “Don’t do it all at once! One of the biggest mistakes you can make when revising any technical document, [...]
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Kate Winslet’s 7 Secret Ways to Revise User Guides
June 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · User Guide
Tags:Documentation·Editor·example·Proof·Revision·Style Guide·Task·Technical Writer·XML
Finding Hidden Styles in Microsoft Word 2007?
June 6th, 2010 · Comments Off · User Guide
Post written by Ivan Walsh. Follow me on Twitter
Sandra wants to know where is the Styles menu option in Microsoft Word 2007. She wants to update her new business plan and add Notes, Messages, Quotes and other pre-formatted styles. The Styles in Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 seem to be different.
He’s right. The Microsoft Word [...]
Tags:Checklist·format·Forms·Guidelines·Headings. Chapter·MS Word·Style
How do I add fields to the Table of Contents in Microsoft Word 2007?
May 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · User Guide
JL asked me ‘How do I add fields to the Table of Contents in Microsoft Word 2007?’ The problem is that this is easy to do in Microsoft Word 2003 but not so obvious in 2007.
This is the best way to do it:
Add a new Chapter Heading to your user guide
Or Copy and [...]
Tags:codes·fields·macros·MS Word·Table of contents·Technical documentation·User Guide
User Guide Templates
July 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Business, F R E E, Office, User Guide
Our User Guide templates can be used to create user guides, user manuals, getting started guides and other types of technical documents. Includes instructions on how to update the Table of Contents, add styles, add comments, add notes and change the headers and footers. The User Guide template pack includes 4 x User Guide Templates (22 pages each), Information Product Checklist, User Guide Checklist, and a User Guide Final Checklist.
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