A Perspective on Technical and Content Writing in India – Part I
By Nikhil Khandekar Special for TCC Content Developer, India The biggest challenge that the development of technical communication and documentation faces in India is the general and perceived lack of facility with the English language. Website content, email communication, documentation, and even books and articles produced in India suffer a bias in the Western mind…
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Did you know that in Adobe FrameMaker you can use a graphic frame to mask images and graphic objects? 1) First draw a graphic image with any FM graphic tool you like. Or import an image into your FM document. 2) Draw a graphic frame with your graphic frame tool. 3) Grab and drag your…
Read MoreHow to Program MS Word with VBA – An Introduction
Underneath MS Word’s unassuming document interface there is a very powerful code engine — VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). You can use VBA to program Word all kinds of things that are not possible to achieve by just using Word’s built-in menu functions. How to display VBA Editing Environment 1) Open your MS Word document…
Read MoreHow to Use MS Word’s Hide Text Function to Create a Conditional Text Effect
MS Word does not have a dedicated “Conditional Text” functionality like Adobe FrameMaker does. But by using Word’s “hidden text” functionality, you can achieve a similar “conditional text” effect. Imagine you are writing a Thank You letter to your customers for buying two different types of products, with hard-to-remember serial numbers and images: MAXI JUICER…
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