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How to Continue an MS Word Numbered List Across Many Text Blocks

By Ugur Akinci | February 7, 2011

Imagine you have a MS Word numbered list in MS Word that continues across different text blocks. Word’s “natural reflex” is to start each list block from 1 even though you may want the step numbers continue as a single series. For example: (Click to enlarge image) You can try doing the logical thing by…

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A Source of Potential Component Conflict when Multiple Authors Work in Structured Authoring Environment

By Ugur Akinci | February 4, 2011

Multiple authors writing “components” instead of “pages” is the future of technical communications (if not technical training and e-learning). When it comes to documentation, it really makes sense to “write once and publish multiple times”, as the saying goes. And that’s only possible if we all get used to writing “components” (sometimes also referred to…

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On the Idea of “Product Evangelist” in Technical Communications

By Ugur Akinci | February 3, 2011

I love product evangelists for two good reasons: (1) I love software products. I have no idea how we lived back in the 60s and 70s without any software doing all these wonderful things on our desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. (2) I like and admire the product evangelists that I’ve met both in person…

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How to Edit Uneditable Text in Photoshop

By Ugur Akinci | February 2, 2011

A Photoshop incident that happened to me recently… Problem Imagine you have a drawing, a “legacy document”, which includes some text that you need to change. Since the drawing’s layers have been “flattened out” quite some time ago and it’s now a pure raster image (like .JPG or .GIF) you cannot obviously use your Text…

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