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> My
> personal preference these days in the absence of a style guide is to
> remove as much introductory text as possible, because people just don't
> read it.
So if there are a several prerequisites, you make them
steps 1 through 4, before step 5 gets to the meat of the
current procedure?
Assuming a Help page/topic, and not a linear manual, how
do you know the person arriving at your un-introduced
instructions has been through any previous procedures,
or has brought necessary objects or information to
the current set of steps?
- kevin
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