How to Configure the Comma Inside or Outside Quotation Marks in a MS Word 2010 Document
© Ugur Akinci There are two different ways in English to place a comma when used with quotation marks: inside or outside the quote. Here are two examples: INSIDE THE QUOTE: “We need a new server,” the admin said. OUTSIDE THE QUOTE: “We need a new server”, the admin said. After decades in this business,…
Read MoreHow to Hide or Display the Tab Characters, Spaces, and Paragraph Marks in a MS Word 2010 Document
© Ugur Akinci Sometimes you may want to display the Tab Characters, Spaces, and Paragraph Marks in a MS Word 2010 Document, or hide them. What’s more, you may want to show or hide in any combination, like you may want to show tab characters but hide spaces and paragraph marks, etc. This is how…
Read MoreFree Online Tool to Convert MS Publisher .PUB Files to PDF Format
© Ugur Akinci Here is a completely free and simple online tool that I think would be very helpful to our readers who use Microsoft Publisher as well as those who don’t. Since users (who didn’t buy Publisher software) can have problems opening .PUB documents, due to the lack of a Publisher viewer, this tool…
Read MoreMS Word: How to Prevent a Table Row Breaking Across a Document Page
© Ugur Akinci PROBLEM: Have you ever faced the following MS Word problem — table row breaking ugly across a page because it has too much content to fit into one page? SOLUTION: Select the row or rows that bother you. Right click and select Table Properties to display: UNCHECK the “Allow row to…
Read MoreHow to Get That Very First Technical Writing Job…
That very first technical writing job is the hardest for most writers and non-writers who are new to the field. Once that threshold is crossed, there’s usually no going back. The rest is usually a series of promotions or lateral and vertical moves from one company or assignment to another. For the freelancing “lone writers,”…
Read MoreHow to Skip Paragraph Numbering in MS Word
To learn how to skip paragraph numbering in MS Word can save you a lot of time and effort when writing a document. Imagine you have a list of paragraphs numbered consecutively. What if you’d like to remove numbering only from paragraphs TWO and FOUR but continue by rearranging the numbers of the other paragraphs? Easy. Place…
Read MoreHow to Insert a Table into a RoboHelp Topic
Inserting a well-designed table into a RoboHelp topic is child’s play, thanks to the list of great template options made available by Adobe. 1. Click your cursor in a topic where you’d like to insert a table. 2. Select Table > Insert > Table from the menu to select the Insert Table dialog box: You…
Read MoreHow to Create a RoboHelp Project — A Beginner’s Tutorial
A. Introduction This Adobe RoboHelp HTML 10 tutorial shows the basic steps required to create a RoboHelp project. (Robohelp comes in two flavors: Robohelp for Word, and Robohelp HTML). In this tutorial, we will use RoboHelp 8 HTML and generate a help file, starting from a “Blank Project”. NOTE: Robohelp is a deep program with…
Read MoreTwo Different Meanings of Documentation Plan
(Copyright-free photo courtesy of Štefan Štefančík at Unsplash dot com) © Ugur Akinci There are TWO different varieties of “Documentation Plan”s. The first definition of “Documentation Plan” is a rather narrow one according to which the TCC template was designed: a plan to write a hi-tech user manual, a system administration or installation guide. This…
Read MoreHow to Create an "Object Style" for an Anchored Frame in Adobe FrameMaker
The ability to attach an “object style” to an anchored frame in FrameMaker is a huge time server and productivity booster. I applaud all Adobe engineers who came up with this long-due feature. To insert an anchored frame into a document, simply click the anchored frame button on the toolbar to display the Anchored Frame…
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