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Subject:Re: Look & Feel (warnings, notes and hints) From:"Wilcox, John (Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 7 May 1997 10:32:00 -0700
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From: Brenda Burnett
warnings, notes and hints.
What's being done out there? what have you seen and liked (or
didn't like)?
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In the current series of manuals I'm doing, I indent the paragraph 1/2",
italicize it, and place a flag (16-pt Windging O) next to it in a 1/2"
hanging indent.
I've also used a left hand pointing. The one in Zapf Dingbats is better
than the Wingding.
In a previous company, the guy who did the training manuals used a bomb
next to caveats. That's a Wingding M (no threat intended).
I've used lines, boxes, and shading before, too.
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2
Tacoma, WA 98477-0001
253-924-7972 wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
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