Re: Writing procedures?

Subject: Re: Writing procedures?
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:13:48 -0700

As Geoff says, if you're documenting a procedure, you shouldn't
include anything irrelevant to the procedure.

If you're writing a general description of a dialog box for some sort
of reference, you should be supplying information that's not on
screen.

A prose description of a dialog box or wizard panel that adds nothing
to what users can see for themselves onscreen is uninformative and
degrades the documentation by making the user wade through
uninformative fillter find whatever useful information (if any) is in
the doc. I've inherited docs that consisted entirely of such pointless
nonsense.
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References:
Writing procedures: From: Raj
Writing procedures?: From: Geoff Hart

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