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>Of course, that assumes you can leave copies of your 
>samples behind.

I have yet to have a job that lets me use samples in my portfolio.  I got around it by writing similar documents about "unclassified" items or simply writing up procedures for daily items. (Right now my two "leave behinds" are How to Do A Web Search and Using Outline Numbering In MSWord.)

Alas, my greatest manual was for a proprietary database and I have yet to find a commercial database that covers the equivalent tasks.  Part of the reason I'm so proud of the manual is the section that made it easy for the user to echo small changes in related data throughout several different reports - and all commercial software seems to do that automatically!

When in doubt, make something up!  Word and the Web are ubiquitous; anything related to them gives a prospective employer a good grasp on your writing skills.

Nea

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