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Factors Determining the Success of MS Word Master Document Feature

By Ugur Akinci | November 9, 2011

© Ugur Akinci MS Word’s Master Document feature is a useful one for creating compound documents out of smaller individual ones. However, like anything else in life, this feature also has its limits and weaknesses. As has been pointed out by many experts in the industry, Master Documents are prone to get corrupted. But, under…

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Technical Writing: Corporate Payroll or Freelancing?

By Ugur Akinci | November 3, 2011

Should you choose freelancing or go on a corporate payroll to work as a technical communicator? I get this question from my readers on a more or less regular basis: “Should I quit my company and set up shop as an independent entrepreneur offering technical writing services? Should I just launch a web site and…

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High Entry Threshold for New DITA Writers

By Ugur Akinci | November 1, 2011

High Entry Threshold for New DITA Writers is a rarely admitted issue for technical communicators. I receive reader letters about DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) these days that more or less ask the same question: how difficult is it for a technical writer to specialize in single-sourcing and structured authoring? Should they learn DITA? And…

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How to Configure the Web Settings of your MS Word Document

By Ugur Akinci | September 26, 2011

Did you know that you can save your MS Word 2010 documents as HTML web pages? TIP: Actually this is one of the ways in which you can easily transform your Word document into Amazon Kindle documents. For that purpose, save your Word file as “Web Page, Filtered” before importing it as an HTML file…

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