RE: User and user guides

Subject: RE: User and user guides
From: "Ed" <hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "'Raj '" <uneasysoul -at- rediffmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:50:33 -0400

Hi Raj,

I will tie together your questions with the recent posts on minimalism:

1. It depends.

2. Probably.

3. Up to 100%.

Hope this helps.
-=Ed.

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> I have three queries:
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> What exactly is a user looking in a user manual?
>
> Can a user guide be written for all users of a software?
>
> How much technical can a user guide be?
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Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices.
http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/

Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/

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