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Category Archives: Screen Capture
4 Technical Writers I Love + Betsy
Who are the technical writers you respect most of the web? These four people helped me in 2009 and id like to share them with you. Some you may know, others you may not. The point is that while I’ve worked with many people in the last 12 months, these folks, have reached out and went the extra yard. And, for me, that’s the difference. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Facebook, People, Screen Capture
Tagged Betsy Weber, Content Wrangler, Scott Able, Technical Writers, Tom Johnson
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Technical Writing News Nov 13th
This week’s technical writing news includes RoboScreenCapture, a FrameMaker screenshot app, Twitter 101 for Technical Communicators, the New Help System in Visual Studio 2010, List of the Top Open Source technical writers on the Web, feedback on STC’s Dues Increases, … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management, Doc 2 Help, Freelance, MadCap Blaze, News, Salary, Screen Capture, STC
Tagged Adobe FrameMaker, Doc2Help, Freelance, Help System, Open Source, RoboScreenCapture, STC, technical communicators, Technical Writers, Twitter, Visual Studio
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What are Your Favorite 10 Technical Writing Tools?
I’ve used the same technical writing tools for the last 5 years. A few products have come across my desk but nothing that really blown me away. Here’s a run-down of what I use to write my technical documents. No … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management, Dita, MadCap Blaze, MadCap Flare, Screen Capture, Software Development, Technical Writing, Visio, Word 2010
Tagged Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe RoboHelp, Camtasia, diagramming, Dita, Doc-to-Help, DTP, Epic Editor, indesign, MadCap, MadCap Flare, Microsoft Word, notepad, Open Source, photoshop, process mapping, Robohelp, Smartdraw, Snagit, Structured Authoring, Technical Writing Tools, TurboDemo, user interface, Visio, whitesmoke, XML Spy
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Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free
Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit
Tagged Camtasia Studio, Facebook, Flickr, Free, H.264+AAC, high-definition, Jing, Limitations, MPEG-4, Screencast.com, Screenshot, Snagit, Techsmith, Twitter, Viddler, Video recording, Vimeo, YouTube
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Screen Capture Tip #11, How to Batch Process Groups of Images
Do you need spend hours trying to make all your photos be the same size, format, with your company watermarks added in the corner? How can you convert 100 images to same file format, add a 1 pixel black border, … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Technical Writing
Tagged Adobe Photoshop, Batch Conversion Wizard, Batch Process, Batch Processing, Border, Caption, Catalog Browser, Color Depth, File Conversions, File Format, Filters, graphic, How To, Image Editing, Image Resolution, Images, JPEG, Portable Network Graphics, Snagit, Techsmith, Watermark, Windows, Windows Explorer
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Screenshot Tip #10 – how to capture a Region, Desktop, Entire Webpage and keep the Hyperlinks
Here is the simplest way to take a screenshot of a region, desktop, an entire webpage and also how to include the hyperlinks if you want to save the webpage as a SWF or PDF. We’re going to use SnagIt as our preferred tool for taking screenshots. Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Technical Writers, Technical Writing, Templates
Tagged diagrams, graphics, illustrations, image editor, print screen, Screen Capture, screen capture software, screen captures, Screen Dump, screencapture, Screenshot, Snagit, Technical Documents, Techsmith
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Instant Site Thumbnails for Your Blog with PageGlimpse
Image via Wikipedia What’s the fastest way to take a screenshot of a website, turn it into a thumbnail, and get it on your blog? How about if you could automate this? Most of us hit print screen, take it … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Technical Writing
Tagged Camtasia, Flickr, How To, Screen Capture, screen capture software, Screenshot, template
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Review MadCap Mimic 4.0, Reuse your Existing E-learning and Training Content
MadCap Mimic 4.0 is a native XML application designed for creating software simulations and tutorials. The newest version lets you import PowerPoint files, has a new Flash engine, print and output options that support conditionalized publishing. While it will take … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe FrameMaker, MadCap Blaze, Screen Capture
Tagged Adobe Captivate, Adobe Flash, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Technical Communication Suite, Data Formats, DITA Open Toolkit, document, Long Documents, MadCap Mimic, MapCap, microsoft, Microsoft PowerPoint, Portable Document Format, publishing managers, Review, Robohelp, technical communicators, Technical documentation, Technical Writers, XML
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3 Tricks to Sharpen Your Screenshots
Diagrams, charts, and images all serve to enhance academic, business and technical documents. Without them the reader’s attention would flag and their interest wane.
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Technical Writing, Templates, Tips, Tools, Word 2007, Word 2010
Tagged Adobe Framemaker, blogger, Case Study, Dita, MadCap Flare, MS Word, Paypal, Robohelp, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Snagit, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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My Favourite Print Screen Trick
Here’s my favorite trick when taking Print Screens. Some people call these screenshots or screen dumps. Tip: The print screen button (PrintScrn) is next to F12 on your keyboard. 1. To take a screenshot, press PrintScrn. 2. Open Word and … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Technical Writing, Templates, Tips, Tools, Word 2007, Word 2010
Tagged Adobe Framemaker, blogger, Case Study, Dita, MadCap Flare, MS Word, Paypal, Robohelp, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Snagit, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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How much can I make as a Tech Writer?
The median expected salary for a typical Technical Writing Supervisor 1 in the United States is $57,580. The Salary Wizard at salary.com has some terrific interactive tools for finding the base salaries, average salaries, and top paying roles in this … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Technical Writing, Templates, Tips, Tools, Word 2007, Word 2010
Tagged Adobe Framemaker, blogger, Case Study, Dita, MadCap Flare, MS Word, Paypal, Robohelp, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Snagit, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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Considering a move into Technical Writing
Allan Hoffman on Monster.com offers some excellent advice for anyone considering a move into Technical Writing. “To some people, any job with the word “writer” in the title looks like it must be a blast — the next best thing … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Templates, Tips, Word 2007
Tagged MS Word, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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How to Fix MS Word Documents Automatically
To automatically detect and correct typos, misspelled words, and incorrect capitalization, use the AutoCorrect feature in Word.
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Templates, Tips, Word 2007
Tagged microsoft, Microsoft Word, MS Word, Screenshots, Spelling, Technical Writing, Text replacement, Troubleshooting, Word, Word Processors
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Using AutoCorrect to correct errors as you type
Here’s a quick tip to AutoCorrect errors as you type in Word: Capitalization options – AutoCorrect can capitalize the first word in a sentence, the names of days of the week, the first letter of text in a table cell, … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Templates, Tips, Word 2007
Tagged MS Word, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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Creating a Drop Cap in MS Word
Here’s a quick tip! To create a drop cap in Word: Select the first letter in the paragraph. Select Drop Cap from the Format menu bar. Choose None, Dropped, or In Margin. Select the type of font, the number of … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Templates, Tips, Word 2007
Tagged MS Word, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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Writing Proposals –Analyze the Buyers Mindset or Else!
In theory, responding to an RFP should be a simply task. As each RFP has a fixed set of requirements you, the bidder, should simply have to answer these in order to be considered. But life is not that simple… … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Templates, Tips, Word 2007
Tagged MS Word, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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Microsoft Word compared against Adobe Framemaker
This article compares Microsoft Word and Adobe FrameMaker by examining the following key areas: Ability to create Long DocumentsShort DocumentsUsing Microsoft Word as a DTP ToolPrinting and TypeCross-platform capabilitiesWord’s Nice and Not So Nice FeaturesImporting GraphicsIndexing Over the past decade, … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Templates, Tips, Word 2007
Tagged MS Word, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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International Procurement Resources
For those who are involved in proposal writing, tenders and procurement, there is very useful catch-all page at http://www.proposalwriter.com/intprocure.html##europe that lists Business Opportunities and Procurement links for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Deborah Kluge offers some terrific insights into … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Templates, Tips, Word 2007
Tagged MS Word, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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Keyboard shortcuts for posting on Blogger.com
If you are familar with the keyboard shortcuts in MS Word, you’ll be delighted to know that Blogger also offers the same type of functionality. For those who are serious about blogging, I’d highly recommend that you start using these … Continue reading
Posted in Screen Capture, Snagit, Templates, Tips, Word 2007
Tagged MS Word, Screenshots, Shortcuts. Screen Capture, Technical Writing, Troubleshooting
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