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It's Friday. Have enjoyed this series of posts and was inspired to pull out my ancient copy of 'Developing Procedures, Policies and Documentation', a training workbook based on Robert Horn's Information Mapping methodology.
The way to go for a simple step action procedure, according to the trainer's interpretation of the methodology, was a two column table - step number in column one, and step action in column two.
I was a fan of IM but not this particular bit.
The training taught us to use tables to structure discrete but related chunks of information, and that principle I have always found useful. But to 'chunk' the step number out on its lonesome in a two column table.... to the fresh young tech writer I was then, it looked very bad - like the writer had developed a complex. Naturally I did want my writing to make me look like that!
My vote remains with the numbered list.
Cheers, Diana
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