How to Suppress Alert Messages in FrameMaker Documents
Adobe FrameMaker is such a smart program that if you have any fonts missing, if any of the cross-reference links are broken, it’ll let you know right away when you are opening the file by displaying an alert message. Alert messages are a great way to correct what’s wrong with your document except… when you…
Read More6 Ways to Display Paragraph Style Catalog in Adobe FrameMaker
© Ugur Akinci Adobe FrameMaker offers many ways to organize and display your paragraph style catalog that comes in very handy when your are working on a document or creating a template out of the document you are currently working on. 1) Display the paragraph style catalog (Format > Paragraph > Catalog). 2) Scroll down…
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How to Turn Off and Hide Images in an Adobe FrameMaker Document
Introduction There may be times when you might want to hide the FrameMaker images in a large Adobe FrameMaker document by turning them off. For example, imagine you have a 1,000 page document with 500 complicated images. Opening and closing such a file may take time. You might be snagged if any of the images…
Read MoreTCC Selected Recommended Blog 2014
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Read MoreHow to Create a MS Word Form Letter in 15 Seconds
Are you sending the same letter over and over to different individuals on different dates? There is a way to automate that process. You can actually create such a form letter within 15 seconds: 1 second to create the letter, and 14 more to change the name and address as appropriate. In this method even…
Read MoreTwo Windows 7 Productivity Techniques when working with Multiple Windows Open on Your Desktop
© Ugur Akinci Here are two Windows 7 productivity techniques that I use on a regular basis: 1) Title-bar double-click to Maximize and Minimize a Single Window Let’s say you have 10 windows open on your desktop and you’d like to maximize the one you are working on. Just double-click its title bar and your…
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How to Split a MS Word Paragraph into Individual Sentences
Introduction In MS Word, a paragraph is a block of text that follows one after the other. It is a block of text that follows one after the other and is indicated by a blank line between paragraphs. How to Split a Paragraph Imagine you have a long text made up of a single paragraph.…
Read MoreHow to Insert Text Above a Table in MS Word
© Ugur Akinci Sometimes it’s difficult in a MS Word document to enter text before a table, especially if the table is the very first thing on the first page of a document, like the following: To insert a text before the table, just insert your cursor in the first cell of the table (top-left…
Read MoreA Perspective on Technical and Content Writing in India – Part II
By Nikhil Khandekar Special for TCC Content Developer, India (Continues from Part I) In India, technical communication was introduced by the emergence of IT in the 1990s. Our mathematical and scientific acumen for all things IT was what led to our stumbling onto technical communication. Stumble we had to; there was no working our way…
Read MoreA Perspective on Technical and Content Writing in India – Part I
By Nikhil Khandekar Special for TCC Content Developer, India The biggest challenge that the development of technical communication and documentation faces in India is the general and perceived lack of facility with the English language. Website content, email communication, documentation, and even books and articles produced in India suffer a bias in the Western mind…
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