MadCap Software has released on details some new products it will be releasing shortly. These include MadCap X-Edit and MadCap Press. What is striking is that MadCap really does seem to understand the problems technical communicators face in the real world. One of the issues technical authors often face is dealing with reviews of drafts… Read more »
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Contract technical author in central Manchester needed
Our client has a requirement for a contract technical author who could work on site, starting in April or May. You will be documenting updated financial processes, which will be used across 5,000 stores. This printed manual will be a cross between system and business process manuals. You need to have experience of documenting financial… Read more »
Microsoft asks for suggestions wrt. more collaborative document authoring capabilities in Word
Spotted on the Microsoft Office Word Team’s Blog: “I’m curious what everyone would like to see enhanced in Word in terms of collaborative document authoring. Francis suggests the ability to “…break down (and recombine/build back up) our documents simply and reliably into (from) chunks/blocks/sections/subdocuments that individual authors could work on…” I’d love to hear more… Read more »
Contract Technical Authors and e-learning courseware developers needed
We’ve a client who is looking to build a team of e-learning courseware designers or technical authors capable of developing e-learning courseware. This team will work on a MOD IT project it has won, with the project likely to run May (or June) 2008 – November (or December) 2008. The team will be developing online… Read more »
Quick Parts in Outlook 2007
One of the new features in The Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is Quick Parts. This feature provides snippets-like capabilities in Outlook, namely reusable pieces of content that can be called up when you’re writing a message. It would be very interesting if these were stored as accessible XML file(s)that could be incorporated into a single… Read more »