RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Mantyla
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:09 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Value of giving up numbering in Word?
> 
> I've been beating against a brick wall on numbering 
> too. I've gotten some instructions and ideas from 
> list members and they are too hard to do or take 
> too much time to do with repetitive keystrokes, 
> copying, F9s, etc. Some i haven't tried because 
> I'm too burned out on the others that seemed easy 
> but really took hours to figure out, try, and I'm 
> still testing in Doc-To-Help, which I don't know 
> how it will affect them going through it...
> 

So the problem isn't Word, it's the program you're trying to import
into. Just because something works consistently in Word, doesn't mean
that some other program won't muck it up.

> What is the great value of numbering instructions 
> anyway? Is there a realistic, evidence-based 
> concern that the reader will lose his way, or is 
> this just a convention that tech writers do 
> without considering the alternative--not using 
> numbered lists at all?...
> 

That depends on your users. My users prefer to have numbers. I can't
imagine telling them, "You don't need numbers," when what I really mean
is, "I don't know how to give you numbers."































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