TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:Re: Table that spreads over multiple pages From:"Ed Wurster" <eawurster -at- comcast -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 6 Aug 2004 10:35:58 -0400
Kimberly Thornton wrote:
> I have inherited a military technical manual to update. I've come
> across a troubleshooting table that spreads across 33 pages!!!!! Just
> one table! Its a three-column table that lists the Symptom, Probable
> Cause, and Corrective Action. Obviously this table needs to be broken
> up into something more sane. My first thought was to break up each
> Symptom into individual sections and create a table that just lists
> the causes and corrective actions. However, many of the Symptoms have
> multiple (five or more) Probable Causes and the Corrective Action for
> many of these causes have procedures with at least 10 steps. So
> trying to create a table that doesn't spread over more than two pages
> doesn't seem likely.
Careful, the manual has been in use for some time. If you change things
without clear direction, you may end up with additional work to do, and not
be paid for it. If part of the contract is to improve the manual, try a
small section first, and send for comments.
ROBOHELP X5: Featuring Word 2003 support, Content Management, Multi-Author
support, PDF and XML support and much more!
TRY IT TODAY at http://www.macromedia.com/go/techwrl
WEBWORKS FINALDRAFT: New! Document review system for Word and FrameMaker
authors. Automatic browser-based drafts with unlimited reviewers. Full
online discussions -- no Web server needed! http://www.webworks.com/techwr-l
---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archiver -at- techwr-l -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.
