RE: Dealing with required/optional information in the same doc

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

> 
> Sloppy Example:
> 
> Backing Up Data
> Step 1: BIOS Config
> Step 2: Installation
> Step 3: Configuration
> Setting Up Replication
> 
> 
>  Do I give even the optional steps a step number and just 
> note it (Step
> 1: Backing Up Data (Optional)).  Do I just bite the bullet and
manage
> two 30+ page chapters where only about 4 pages are different? 
> (I'd love
> to have conditional or variable text right now but I don't, we
use
> InDesign.) 

Victoria,

I would do almost as you suggest, with two changes:

- Make them all steps

 - Instead of "Optional" in parentheses, say "For <config name>
only".


Bonnie Granat | www.GranatEdit.com
bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US



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