In the last sixteen years, email has helped me win more business than any other tool. It’s turned cautious readers into enthusiastic buyers. It’s brought in prospective customers from the edge and driven repeat traffic to the money pages. Here are some of the mistakes I’ve made and how to get around them. Emails Mistakes […]
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3 Reasons Why Microsoft Word Documents Become Corrupt
What can Kate Winslet teach you about proof-reading technical documents? Watch the movie The Reader and it will make sense. If she was writing this blog, she’d probably say: “Don’t do it all at once! One of the biggest mistakes you can make when revising any technical document, is to do it all in one […]
Want to add special characters, such as the degree symbol – º – to your Word documents? You can add the degree symbol – º – in MS Word if you are writing about recipes, mathematics, the weather, technical or scientific documents. In this tutorial we look at how to insert this into your report. […]
Want to be a technical writer but don’t have the time to go to university full-time? Maybe you don’t have to. Earlier this year we asked if Online Degrees in Technical Writing as Good as Real World Universities? The response was mostly positive. Mostly. There’s quite a few universities that offer online degrees in the […]
Today we look at how to remove hidden characters in MS Word. First – How do I remove invisible characters that appear as ¬ symbols in MS Word? If you copy and paste this symbol into Search & Replace box, it doesn’t work. MS word doesn’t seem to recognize these symbols. How do you get rid of […]
Ah, wouldn’t it be nice if people did what you asked them to do? Of course, that’s not always possible. But you can try to persuade them to come around to your line of thinking. Here are 10 ways you can write better Business Letters. Be sympathetic to the reader’s situation. Acknowledge their frustration and […]
Last week we showed you how Bullet Lists can crash MS Word documents, especially if you cut and paste from several different documents. We outlined some techniques to reduce the file size, mostly by creating pre-formatted bullet lists and re-creating bullet lists the correct way. How to fix Corrupt & Damaged MS Word files But […]
If the white background in MS Word hurts your eyes, you can change the background color. This makes it easier on your eyes, reduces eye strain and headaches. There are different ways to do this in different versions of MS Word. Change the background color from white to blue in MS Word MS Word 2007 […]
MS Word automatically creates a hyperlink when you type the address of an Web page into a document. This happens only if you have not turned off the automatic formatting of hyperlinks functionality. If you want, you can also create customized hyperlinks to documents, for example, to a shared drive. Note that these hyperlinks can […]