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Re: User's Manuals vs. User's Guide

Subject: Re: User's Manuals vs. User's Guide
From: "Maggie Secara" <maggiros -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 11:05:52 -0700

I get around the whole thing (and the pesky question of the apostrophe) by making the title: Using <product name>
The user can decide whether it's a guide or a manual. For shorter prjects, I may call it: <prduct name> Handbook, if it seems appropriate or I'm just in the mood for a change.


Maggie Secara



From: "Andreas Ternes" <andreas -dot- ternes -at- siempelkamp -dot- com>
Reply-To: "Andreas Ternes" <andreas -dot- ternes -at- siempelkamp -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Subject: Re: User's Manuals vs. User's Guide
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:50:27 +0200

"Lurker writer" wrote
> Assuming this is a serious inquiry...

I am sure this is a serious inquiry.
According to the contracts between the (German) company I have worked for
in the last 5 years and their customers, I had to deliver a "User's Manual"
and a "User's Guide" for the same machine. I always asked the project
managers what the difference between these two manuals is, but never got an
answer. I always wrote only one book and called it "Operation Manual".

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