Diagrams, charts, and images all serve to enhance academic, business and technical documents. Without them the reader’s attention would flag and their interest wane.

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Here’s my favorite trick when taking Print Screens. Some people call these screenshots or screen dumps.
Tip: The print screen button (PrintScrn) is next to F12 on your keyboard.
1. To take a screenshot, press PrintScrn.
2. Open Word and Paste (Edit, Paste) the screenshot into your document.
This is fine if you’re capturing the entire screen.
3. But what [...]

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The median expected salary for a typical Technical Writing Supervisor 1 in the United States is $57,580. The Salary Wizard at salary.com has some terrific interactive tools for finding the base salaries, average salaries, and top paying roles in this field. They also offer the “Basic Salary Report based on broad national data, reported [...]

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Allan Hoffman on Monster.com offers some excellent advice for anyone considering a move into Technical Writing.
“To some people, any job with the word “writer” in the title looks like it must be a blast — the next best thing to working on episodes of “Desperate Housewives.” If spotting the job title technical writer in [...]

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Here’s a quick tip to AutoCorrect errors as you type in Word:

Capitalization options – AutoCorrect can capitalize the first word in a sentence, the names of days of the week, the first letter of text in a table cell, and so on.
AutoCorrect entries – AutoCorrect can use a list of built-in corrections, called AutoCorrect entries, [...]

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Here’s a quick tip!
To create a drop cap in Word:

Select the first letter in the paragraph.
Select Drop Cap from the Format menu bar.
Choose None, Dropped, or In Margin.
Select the type of font, the number of line to drop, and the distance from the text.
Click Ok.

That’s it!
Ivan

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