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Convert Word Documents into MP3s
Image via Wikipedia Remember the first time you heard your voice on the answering machine? Bet you wanted to change your voice straightaway. No? In the same vein, I found this app that lets you...
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Robohelp or Doc-to-Help – which one is best?
I have a choice. Robohelp or Doc-to-Help? My client has given me permission to use whatever tool I want to do the next batch of tech docs — and they’ll buy the software. No cost to me. Which one...
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What are Your Favorite 10 Technical Writing Tools?
I’ve used the same technical writing tools for the last 5 years. A few products have come across my desk but nothing that really blown me away. Here’s a run-down of what I use to write my technical...
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How To Double Your Writing Speed in MS Word
What to know how to type faster and get those documents out the door quicker? How To Write Documents Faster & Save Your Fingers From Exhaustion Most people don’t know what the AutoCorrect feature...
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Is Adobe FrameMaker Worth the Money?
Before you hit reply and say, ‘it depends’, I know it depends but… If you’ve been given a budget for a technical writing dept (tech comms), then you looking for value for money when it comes to buying...
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Why Adobe FrameMaker Sucks – A Slight Rant
Ok, let’s start this product comparison between Microsoft Word (in the red corner) and Adobe FrameMaker (in the blue corner). Before we get into the actual review, I’d like to share how I first...
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7 Skills Technical Writers Need
When you think of technical writing, what comes to mind? Do you think of someone sitting all alone in a cubicle, glued to a computer screen, diligently documenting complex software? While it’s true...
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We make mistakes every week on our Technical Writing projects. However, since we’ve started to capture things in our lessons learned meetings, the ‘repeat offenders’ have gone down. Running web-based...
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Want to use Microsoft Word as an XML Editor? XML (Extensible Markup Language) is made up of a number of user defined tags which are used to store and transport data. When it comes to writing XML most...
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How to Fix Errors in Technical Documents Automatically
Do you keep making the same mistakes when writing in Microsoft Word? One of the hidden features is that you can replace snippets of text with formatted text. In other words, say you typed, rpt1 You can...
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