Cindy Curry (STC President) points out that the recession left the STC with a “loss of about $400,000 USD in principal and interest from our investments, which have traditionally been used to provide support for activities that have as yet no revenue source, such as the Body of Knowledge and other key committee work.”
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Most screenshot software doesn’t let you take a screen capture of the Windows menu bar. Here’s a workaround.
When you click on a line in Microsoft Visio and enter some text, it is automatically inserted in the middle of the line. How about if you want to move it to the side? Here’s how to do it.
Ariana Green on HarvardBusiness.org asks Is Freelancing Right For You?
When discussing Audience Analysis, David McMurray points out that, “for most technical writers, this is the most important consideration in planning, writing, and reviewing a document. You “adapt” your writing to meet the needs, interests, and background of the readers who will be reading your writing.
You can improve the look and feel of your diagrams by changing the default text settings and adding a splash of color. Here’s how to do it.
Here are seven quick tips to improve the quality of your technical documents. When you write a technical document, consider the following points:
Master templates let you control the format and positioning of every component in your FrameMaker documents.
In plain English this means that if you setup a footer as Arial, size 10, and then apply it to the main document, all footers will appear in this font and this size. Sounds good!