Archive for January 2011
How to Insert and Manage MS Word Footnotes and Endnotes
Ms Word footnotes and endnotes are important when you’re writing a long technical document with references. MS Word 2010 has nice features that make inserting “footers” and “enders” a pleasure indeed. This feature has not changed since MS Word 2007. So if you know how to insert footnotes and endnotes in a MS Word 2007…
Read More3 Ways to Correct the Misaligned Items in a FrameMaker List
Do you have a FrameMaker list in your technical document that looks like this? The most common way to correct the misaligned items in a FrameMaker list is to delete the list and recreate it. If you want to change the alignment of a single item in a FrameMaker list, highlight it and then press…
Read MoreHow to Align the Punctuation of a MS Word Numbered List
A MS Word numbered list with ten or more steps does not present a pretty sight due to the way the punctuation after the step number 9 shifts. Here is one such “UGLY LIST”: Here is how you can fix this “situation”… (1) Select your numbered list by using your mouse. (2) In the HOME…
Read MoreLine Numbering Options in a MS Word Document
MS Word offers some really nifty line numbering options. Line numbers are used regularly in many legal documents. I think it makes sense when you are editing documents as well. Although Word of course have sophisticated editing and tracking options, it’s still convenient to tell someone check out “line 534” instead of “the third line,…
Read MoreHow to Name Files in a Technical Documentation Project
© 2011 Ugur Akinci Naming files — it sounds like something easy to do, doesn’t it? But I know from experience: it can actually become a very complicated and tangled-up affair with productivity-killing consequences. The root of the problem lies in the fact that the name should make sense not only for the creator, the…
Read MoreHow to Shift Between Portrait and Landscape Orientations in a Microsoft 2010 Document
© 2011 Ugur Akinci There are times when you may want to shift from Portrait to Landscape orientation in a Microsoft 2010 document. This happens for example when you need to insert a table that is too wide to fit into a Portrait page. With an application like FrameMaker which uses master pages, you’d simply change the…
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