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Subject:Re: Figures in User Manuals From:Kathy Mizell <KathyMizell -at- mfpoer -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:30:28 -0600
Claire Philpott writes:
"I have been 'asked' to include figures under every screen capture and to
create an index of these figures."
The user manual style I inherited includes figures for each screen. I don't
know the initial reason for including a figure or numbers for screens, but I
don't find it difficult to maintain. Our manuals are written for
non-technical readers. The manuals cover in-house developed software. We
have not created an index but I can see that one might be helpful as a quick
reference to locate a section of the manual as long as the index also
included the name of the screen.
Kathy Mizell
972-770-1114
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kathymizell -at- mfpoer -dot- com
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