A Membership Web Site and Magazine You Should be Familiar with: SiliconIndia.com
If you’re not familiar with SiliconIndia.com you should be since it is on its way to become India’s LinkedIn and Facebook rolled up in one. It’s a membership web site where you’d find inquiries about CMS, documentation, all kinds of software and hardware platforms or management issues as well as… a spiritual poem a devotee…
Read MoreHow to Tolerate Ambiguity in Technical Writing and Keep Anxiety Under Control
© Ugur Akinci Technical communicators need to have a healthy capacity to tolerate ambiguity; not permanently throughout a project, but during certain phases of it. William Goldman, the award-winning screenplay writer and filmmaker, is famous for describing Hollywood as a place where “nobody knows anything.” And he meant it. The situation is not that bad…
Read MoreHow to Use "Edit Anyway" Button in MS PowerPoint
Here is another feature that I really love about MS PowerPoint: the whimsical “Edit Anyway” button. This button becomes very important and displays only after you mark a PPT file as FINAL. You do that to prevent others editing your file. But what happens if, after marking it as FINAL, you discover a typo, or…
Read MoreHow to Share a MS Word 2010 Document and Edit it with Other Authors
© Ugur Akinci Here is an automated way to share a MS Word 2010 document with other authors, editors, or reviewers in your group. If you have Word 2007, you cannot use this method because it does not provide an easy link to SharePoint like MS Word 2010 does. I also think that Google Documents’…
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