How to Apply Multilevel Numbering to a MS Word Technical Document
© Ugur Akinci Some documents like software or legal documents require multilevel numbering of headings that look like the following: Imagine you have a Word document like the following: To attach a multilevel number to each heading, first make sure all your headings are assigned one of the heading styles in the style set you…
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How to Manage Signal Versus Noise in Technical Documents
Introduction Signal versus noise is an interesting and important issue in technical communication. Here is an uncomfortable fact of technical document management: as much as we’d like to base our decisions on hard evidence and numbers, we still make a number of judgment calls that rest on nothing more than a seat-of-the-pants “this feels okay,”…
Read MoreHow to Line Up Numbers on Decimal Points in Excel
© Ugur Akinci Did you have a column of numbers in MS Excel that looked ugly like this: You can have a really nice looking column of numbers by centering them on the DECIMAL POINT — even if some of them do not have a decimal point. The first thing to do is to define…
Read MoreHow to Test the Map IDs of a RoboHelp Context Sensitive HTML Help File
© Ugur Akinci All context sensitive help files have each individual help topic assigned a Map ID number. The programmers code that ID into the application so that when a user presses the F1 button in a topic screen, the application reads the Map ID of the topic and displays the correct topic that corresponds…
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