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Technical Writer Salaries by Hi-Tech Company

By Ugur Akinci | March 20, 2012

© Ugur Akinci Here is an interesting source that lists the salary range for various categories of technical writers by company: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/technical-writer-salary-SRCH_KO0,16.htm Since sometimes such web pages are removed from the server, let’s summarize the annual salary ranges for technical writers by hi-tech company: Cisco $76,000 – $107,000 CA Technologies $62,000 – $99,000 Microsoft $76,000…

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Document Navigation Sidebar in MS Word

By Ugur Akinci | March 12, 2012

MS Word has a feature that I love to use and some writers seem to be unaware of. Word has a really great DOCUMENT NAVIGATION SIDEBAR with which you can directly go to any part of your document that starts with one of the standard Heading paragraph styles. It’s basically a list of ANCHOR POINTS listed…

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The Worst and Best Review Scenarios for Technical Documents

By Ugur Akinci | March 5, 2012

Review process is where most technical documents either sink or swim: either they improve as a result of to-the-point and clear comments or they become muddled and actually deteriorate as a result of overlapping and conflicting feedback comments. I believe the quality and outcome of a review process has a lot more to do with the way…

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Adobe InDesign for Publishing Technical Documents on iPhone and iPad

By Ugur Akinci | March 2, 2012

I’ve been studying structured-authoring and DITA for some time with an eye towards publishing  technical  documents on mobile platforms like iPad and iPhone.  I always thought that was the natural way to re-purpose and adapt my FrameMaker documents for the digital media. Recently, however, I became aware of another possibility as I started to study…

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