Technical Writing – How to Easily Find Differences Between Two MS Word Documents
Here is a task that a lot of technical writers have been confronted with in the past: 1. You have two documents, with slight differences between them. This happens, for example, when someone has edited a text but did not save any editing marks with the document. Or you might be handed two different versions…
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Display Framemaker Conditional Text by Using a Single Text Block
A Framemaker User Case Let’s say as a technical writer you want to display different versions of the same text in a FrameMaker technical document. You’d like to toggle different versions on and off. There is one condition however: you do not want to use multiple copies of the same text block (with perhaps different…
Read MoreTechnical Writing – How Wikis will Transform Technical Writers into Information Coordinators
In case you are not too familiar with it, Wiki is a web site that can be built by many authors together. That’s its most basic definition. But “wiki,” which means “quick” in Hawaiian, refers to the application that makes a wiki web site possible as well. wikipedia is the world’s best known wiki but,…
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