How to Create a List of Tables in MS Word
Follow these steps… (1) Give all your tables a caption. (2) Click your cursor at where you’d like to place your List of Tables. Its traditional location in a technical document is right after the Table of Contents (if any) and after the “List of Figures” (if any). (3) Select Insert > Reference > Index…
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© 2010 Ugur Akinci (1) Give all your figures a caption. (2) Click your cursor to where you’d like to place your List of Figures. (NOTE: Microsoft calls the same list “Table of Figures” unfortunately. What if you need to create a list of tables? Should you call that a “Table of Tables”?) The traditional…
Read MoreA Great Government Web Site Dedicated to Plain Language: http://www.plainlanguage.gov
© 2010 Ugur Akinci President Barack Obama ushered in a new age in technical communications by signing the “Plain Writing Act of 2010” on October 13, 2010. According to this, within one year, all U.S. government agencies are supposed to generate only documents written in a plain language. I found this excellent federal web site dedicated to the Plain…
Read MoreWhat Should Today's Ideal Help (User Assistance) Format Look Like?
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Alan Porter of WebWorks help authoring software has released a new white paper titled “Delivering Help for Today’s Web” which can be ordered from aporter@webworks.com Porter raises a number of important issues that I’ve also been thinking about for some time. It’s true that yesterday’s static help file system is losing…
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