The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
Ellen Perry
As a technical editor, you’d be wise to create a style guide for your writing group. A style guide is a time-saving resource that documents the guidelines for punctuation, capitalization, spelling and usage. Just those four categories may seem overwhelming at first — so much to be covered! But remember that a style guide is a living document; it’s constantly updated, never truly finished.
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Q. What is the Work menu in Microsoft Word 2000?
A. Don’t you hate it when you go to open a document from the “recently used” file list at the bottom of the File menu and you find that your document has dropped off the list?
Heather Hall
We know you want to make your documentation as useful to clients as you can. To help you achieve this goal, TE SIG member Heather Hall (Austin, Texas) compiled a list of 10 common documentation mistakes and what you, as an editor, can do to correct them.
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Julia Neunreiter
Just as fairy tales and fables soothed you as a child, so can they soothe you as an adult facing the prospects of layoffs, downsizing and restructuring.
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Diane Feldman
At the beginning of 2000, the TE SIG was in a peculiar state: it had no leader or infrastructure, but it had hundreds of members. That strange juxtaposition of facts told me that editors are ready and eager to exchange ideas, concerns, and resources, but had no means of doing so. In the past year, we have made the first steps to provide the missing means.