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...to the profession, but not to technical writing. I've been writing
user manuals since 1985 and, before that, for many years, I wrote
training manuals, instruction manuals, briefing and policy manuals,
and much other stuff.
I've been lurking here for about a month and have learned a lot,
thanks to the highly capable people who have been posting here.
Rather than starting off my participation with a question (one of many
I'd like to ask), I find that I may be able to answer a question.
In the past few days, there was some discussion about Word's not
allowing an un-numbered paragraph in a numbered series of paragraphs.
I don't know whether or not anyone posted an answer. If so, please
forgive this repetition.
Word does allow un-numbered paragraphs.
To insert an un-numbered paragraph in a numbered series of paragraphs,
hit Shift-Enter at the end of the paragraph the un-numbered paragraph
is to follow, and again to insert a blank line. At the end of the
un-numbered paragraph, use the Enter key to resume numbering.
