A Basic "RoboHelp 8 for Word" Tutorial
© 2010 Ugur Akinci A. Introduction This introductory Adobe RoboHelp tutorial shows the basic steps required to create a RoboHelp 8 for Word project. (Robohelp comes in two basic flavors: Robohelp for Word, and plain Robohelp HTML). In this tutorial, we will use RoboHelp 8 for Word and generate a Help file in Winhelp 2000…
Read MoreAn Organization for Technical Writers Doing Business with U.S. Government
There is an organization that all communicators working for the United States government might consider joining: the National Association of Government Communicators (www.nagc.com). Contact: 201 Park Washington Court, Falls Church, VA 22046-4527. Telephone (703) 538-1787 >>> What is it? NAGC is a national not-for-profit professional network of federal, state and local government employees who disseminate…
Read MoreHow to Copy and Paste Images and PDFs from Hard Disk to MS Word
Imagine you have a list of PDF documents or images that you’d like to copy and paste directly into a Microsoft Word document. That’s very easy to do. Open your Windows Explorer and browse to the directory where the files you want to copy are saved. NOTE: Make sure you are viewing at the “Details”…
Read MorePerseverance vs. Perseveration and the Role of Stress in Writing Life
© Ugur Akinci I have always wondered about the relative merits of hanging in there and keep pushing up against life’s obstacles (perseverance), on the one hand, and continuing to do what clearly does not work and suffering the inevitable consequences of uncontrollable repetition (perseveration), on the other. The dominant market mentality encourages us to…
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