Re: Re: Two TOCs (Was: Transitioning user expectations...)

Subject: Re: Re: Two TOCs (Was: Transitioning user expectations...)
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:16:05 -0800 (PST)


I'm coming into this conversation early, so if I'm out of line, let
me know. However, having spent over a year creating a set of
task-based documents, to do so is more involved than having a TOC
that points somewhere in a document.

Task based documents are written that way. Their approach is
different, their structure is different, and they are written
differently than a function or feature based document.

> > I'm using Word 2003 and it's actually much nicer than it
> > used to be. ...
>
> Whoopwhoop! I'm going to try that tomorrow and then see how my new
> Toc-iriffic docs fly with my managment user group--the ones who say
> they
> want the manuals to be task-based, but only if they can find things
> by function ;-)
>
> Thanks for all your great suggestions,
> Mandy


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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

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amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built
the Titanic.? - Dave Barry



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