Documenting wizards that have numbered "steps"

[l_migliorini -at- yahoo -dot- com]

I am curious to know how others handle the following situation.

I have to document a wizard that has numbered steps - that is, the words
"Step 1 Step 2, Step 3," etc. appear right on the dialog and as part of
the name of that tab.

But of course, in the procedure I am writing, there are a few steps that
you must take before you even get to the wizard Step 1, so the "steps"
will always be out of synch.

I thought of having the main procedural steps  and then treating the whole
wizard as just one step. That way the discrepancy between "my" numbers and
the "wizard's" numbers would not be so great:

1. go to such and such and log on
2. navigate to such and such and change your options
3. change the path names and do blah blah
4. Use the Wizard.
   a. Step 1
   b. Step 2
   c. Step 3
   d. and so on.
5. do the next step of the main procedure once done with the wizard
6. save and close and so on.

What do the others think?

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