re: How evil is copy-and-paste?

Subject: re: How evil is copy-and-paste?
From: Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 07:23:03 -0700 (PDT)



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Craig Hadden writes:
Does anybody else have any suggestions for rules of
thumb about (avoiding) duplicating content?
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yeah, your idea about not copying and pasting huge chunks of text makes sense, especially in your example. What I've done in the past in placed info that shares a lot of common text into a table, and have made the common text one or more of the headers. I've also done bullet lists. It depends on the kind of information.



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