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Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Google Reader: Meet Captain Jing, eat Alphabetti Spaghetti, create lists in Robohelp, move technical writers to network thinking, LaTeX (not that type!), Why I Wasn’t Sold on Single Sourcing, The Moment I Felt Like an Executive, Does Your Company Need a Dedicated Tweeter? and how much does Darren Rowse earn from Blogging. What are you (Read More)

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Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Google Reader: [[ For the full article, see http://www.cherryleaf.com/blog.htm]]. (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Google Reader: I need your advice. Someone has left a fairly negative comment on my blog. What should I do? Approve or Delete?The reason I ask is this.I want people to give their opinion and, even if it offends me in some ways—let’s say they made some sarcastic remarks or found a typo—I’d still approve it.Feedback can be a great learning (Read More)

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Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Flickr: Let’s say you have a large block of text that you want convert into a table. How do you do it?I write many technical documents. This means that many times I need to reformat text so that it is more attractive and easier to read. One way to do this is to place the text in tables. This lets the reader see the informatio (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Flickr: Let’s say you have a large block of text that you want convert into a table. How do you do it?I write many technical documents. This means that many times I need to reformat text so that it is more attractive and easier to read. One way to do this is to place the text in tables. This lets the reader see the informatio (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Flickr: See: www.wordtipsandtricks.com/2009/11/19/how-to-convert-borin... Let’s say you have a large block of text that you want convert into a table. How do you do it?I write many technical documents. This means that many times I need to reformat text so that it is more attractive and easier to read. One way to do this is to (Read More)

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Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Flickr: Let’s say you have a table that you want to convert back into text. How do you do it?I write technical documents for a living. Part of my work is extracting text from excel files and other documents where technical information is located. Sometimes this is text inside tables that I need to get out and reformat. What&# (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Google Reader: Why do you use Google Adwords? Is it because everyone else does? What if I told you Yahoo ads was better, well, would you be interested.I use Google Adwords. And I’ve used it, relatively successfully, for about 5 years. So, it must be doing something right.Well, maybe not.Some web marketing friends—way smarter than me—have (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Google Reader: What to know how to type faster and get those documents out the door quicker?How To Write Documents Faster & Save Your Fingers From ExhaustionMost people don’t know what the AutoCorrect feature in Word really does.Most people think it’s there to correct the odd typo and clean up your document AFTER you have written it.That’ (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Google Reader: The University of Limerick, Ireland offers an excellent online course for those who want to study technical writing at home.This university has a pretty amazing campus, specializes in the Arts and provides a conveyor belt of freshly-minted technical writers to Microsoft, Google and IBM in Ireland. It’s one of the few univer (Read More)

5 days ago

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Google Reader: Here’s a quick trick when taking screenshots of the entire desktop. Hide the taskbar automatically so you don’t have to waste time editing it in Snagit.How to use turn on Window’s Auto-hideTo do this, turn on Auto-hide.Use the auto-hide feature in Windows to hide the taskbar at the bottom of your screen. This means that whe (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Google Reader: Want to be on the very first page of Digg.com? You’d be famous, right? Here’s how to do it.Link Bait has one specific aim — get me to the top of Digg.com. The idea is that once you get there, others will click through to your site and you can reap the rewards once they arrive. Of  course, it’s not that simple but if underst (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Flickr: Use this template to learn more about the target audience for your projects and what they want to achieve, for example, read your user guide, visit your website or buy your product. See: www.klariti.com/Audience-Analysis-Templates/. (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Flickr: Use this template to learn more about the target audience for your projects and what they want to achieve, for example, read your user guide, visit your website or buy your product. See: www.klariti.com/Audience-Analysis-Templates/. (Read More)

6 days ago

Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Flickr: How to Create Dynamic Web links in your Technical Documents See: www.wordtipsandtricks.com/2009/11/13/adding-filenames-and... (Read More)

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