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Subject:Re: Need Style Guide for Windows Publications From:"Brown, Judi" <JHB -at- BTV -dot- MSMAIL -dot- IDX -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 6 Nov 1996 08:03:00 EST
You can use The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications
(ISBN 1-55615-939-0) for hardcopy and online, by Microsoft Press.
There is also The GUI Style Guide, for online, (ISBN 0-12-263590-6) by
Academic Press.
Judi
BrownJ -at- idx -dot- com
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From: TECHWR-L[SMTP:TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 1996 10:43 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Need Style Guide for Windows Publications
My apologies for asking a previouslyr-asked question, but for the life of
me
I can't find the answer in the archives or the FAQ. Someone once named a
good style guide to use when writing user manuals for Microsoft Windows
applications. Perhaps it was a publication from Microsoft itself. I
didn't
need it at the time, but now I do! I want to make sure that I refer to
things the same way that Microsoft does. Please respond to me directly.
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Carol J. Elkins A Written Word
Technical writing & editing
celkins -at- csn -dot- net
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