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Installation planning for X
Preparing to install X
X pre-installation checklist
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Martinek, Carla <CMartinek -at- zebra -dot- com> wrote:
> Looking for some feedback on the text for a heading in many of our installation procedures for our products. They are written in the imperative format (except for the first one, Parts List).
>
> ___Parts List
>
> ___Remove Part A
> ___Remove Part B
> ___Remove Part C
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> ___Reinstall Part C
> ___Reinstall Part B
> ___Reinstall Part A
>
> My issue is that there are times where we need to have a heading prior to Remove Part A ... often it includes a decision table along the lines of "which option do you need to remove/replace?" and they jump to Remove Part B or Remove Part C and skip the ones before it. Or, it could be something such as removing power from the system and removing supplies inside the machine.
>
> Looking for some suggestions on what to call this heading. We've had a heading that we're not happy with, but we can't seem to come up with something we do like, so I thought I'd get ideas from the list and see if someone else has a better idea.
>
> ___Parts List
>
> ___WHAT DO I CALL THIS?
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> ___Remove Part A
> ___Remove Part B
> ___Remove Part C
>
>
> Thx
> Carla
>
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