From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5153350.stm “Microsoft said it started building the software tools in response to requests from government customers…” “…Before now, Microsoft and the technology world have chosen to go their own ways. The new initiative ends some of this diversity and will make it possible for anyone using programs in the Office software suite to save… Read more »

See www.cherryleaf.com/shop.htm. Open all hours. Here, you can purchase online training courses, reports and self-teach guides on writing and technical communication. Not much on offer at present, but we now have the platform and we’ll be adding new items in due course.

Carol has written a review on what this latest authoring tool offers Help designers, which has been published in the Summer 2006 edition of “The Communicator”. She was “highly impressed with Flare’s rich set of features”. However, “Madcap has seemed to have overlooked some usability aspects”. Carol’s cat, Ella, makes a guest appearance in the… Read more »

That’s what it has felt like in recent weeks. So we’ve re-organised things a little bit inside Cherryleaf, allocating more resource to our recruitment service. For the record, the jobs we post are real, live vacancies. We’re pretty strict about taking filled or dead positions off our list. We’re also close to “going live” with… Read more »

Apparently, the latest security patch to Microsoft Word 2003 breaks RoboHelp. The problem occurs with WebHelp: a long list of fonts gets attached to the first topic of any document you have changed.