Re: scaling down a document?

["M Page" <mpage -at- csl -dot- co -dot- uk>]

I'm with Dick on this one. Make sure you understand your brief. In addition
to updating, do they want you to edit, or reformat, or both?

It could be both: One good way of making a physically smaller document
whilst maintaining font size is to hack out all the excess verbiage, turn
around passive sentences and remove redundancies such as in "To X the Y,
Click on the Y you want to X".

You can also cut out pointless illustrations of dialogue boxes, e.g. you
don't really need pictures of every "Do you want to do this?
Yes/No/Cancel/OK" box.

It's amazing how you can shrink a document when you cut out the stuff that
isn't actually information.

Have a good weekend
(I intend to)
Martin

"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> wrote in message news:235049 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
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> Have you been explicitly told to produce the SAME document in a smaller
> physical format? Or is it possible the assignment is actually to produce
> a shorter document (through judicious editing to remove excess verbiage
> and information-free screen shots, perhaps)?
>
> I think that if there is any doubt in your mind about whether you
> understood the assignment correctly, you should settle this question
first.
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