Posts Tagged ‘MS Word’
How to Punctuate Items Listed in a Table Cell or Unordered List
Punctuation of table cell or unordered list items presents a special problem in technical writing since more often than not such lines include technical specs. Punctuation questions, like whether to end each line with a period or not, acquires a special significance since Parallelism “Parallelism” is one of those cardinal rules in technical writing. In…
Read MoreMicrosoft Word 2010 Walkthrough: New Features
How to Create a List of Figures in MS Word
Follow these steps… (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 location…
Read MoreHow 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 the References tab from the…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreHow to Create a List of Figures in MS Word 2003
© 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 MoreHow to Create an Index for a MS Word Document
A well designed and written index is a must for all technical documents that are 30 pages or longer. It’s an indispensable part of a satisfactory user experience. Here are the steps to follow to create an index by using Microsoft Word. 1) Launch MS Word and open your document. 2) Select the word or phrase…
Read MoreHow to Create an Index for a MS Word Document
A well designed and written index is a must for all technical documents that are 30 pages or longer. It’s an indispensable part of a satisfactory user experience. Here are the steps to follow to create an index by using Microsoft Word. 1) Launch MS Word and open your document.2) Select the word or phrase…
Read MoreHow to Use Smart Quotes with Adobe FrameMaker and MS Word (with a WARNING)
First let’s define our terms. These are called (left and right) Smart Quotation marks (or, “Smart Quotes” for short): in contrast to these, (left and right) Standard (or, Straight) Quotation marks (or, again “Standard Quotes” or “Straight Quotes” for short): A good reason to use smart quotes is because they look pretty. They should’ve called…
Read MoreMS Word – How to Draw a Venn Diagram
Use a Venn Diagram (named after John Venn of 1881) to illustrate the overlap between different sets of data or concept. Each data set or concept is represented by a separate circle. What is a Venn Diagram? The Venn diagram is a diagram that shows all the possible logical relations between different sets. It is…
Read More