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Technical writing is any written form of writing or drafting technical communication used in a variety of technical and occupational fields, such a...

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Tech Writing - What do you call brackets in an HTML Script Tag?

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Good day.


I'm documenting an HTML Script tag that contains placeholders such as


In the above, I know

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Tech Writing - Suitable replacement for "either"

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Hey,

I'm struggling with a grammar issue in the following.


"If you select more than one vendor, we

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Tech Writers:  Other ways of saying "start the program"

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What are some other synonyms for "starting a program"  Someone suggested "invoke" but that sounds

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TAB character in text string

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Happy Holidays.


Trying to determine if the following string of characters has a tab after the "e."


e.

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Tech Writing: What do you call this portion of a screen where parameters are displayed?

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Hi,

I'm documenting a screen where the user selects a series of parameters. Each time he does so, the

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Share Google Drive Folder - Can't Find SHARE button

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Hi,

On Google Drive, how do I share a folder?


I navigated to it; however, I don't see a <SHARE>

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Google Sheets - Find comments assigned to me.

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Hi,

We have a Google sheet where we've been adding comments tagged to certain users, or assigned to

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Tech Writing - Google Docs - Browser's Back button does not function as expected.

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Hi Experts,


I'm writing a Google Doc to guide users through a configuration process. My writing style

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Tech Writing - Singular or Plural for name of web page

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Hi,

I have the following sentence. In this (scrubbed) example, "Baseball Statistics" is the name of a

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Tech Writing - Alternatives to 'Drop-Down Slider'

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Hi,

The web application I'm documenting has a drop-down field. When you click on it, the following

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Tech Writing - Documenting Numeric Data Display

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Hi,

I'm documenting a web application page with numerous metrics. They are presented in three ways in

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Microsoft Edge - display two browser tabs horizontally or vertically/simultaneously

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Hi,

In Edge, Win10:


I need to visually compare two related documents in a Wiki Knowledge Base. I need

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Tech Writing - Google Docs - unwanted green highlighting

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Hey,

In a Google doc, on the title page, the word "Version" is highlighted in Green.

I tried manually

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HTML - Attributes for HTML hr element

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Hi,

I need to place a readily visible horizonal line to indicate a break between two sections in a

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Tech Writing - Knowledge Base - Placeholders for links to yet-to-be-published article

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Good morning,


I'm in the midst of recreating our knowledge base under a new CMS. (Document360). The

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Google Docs - Lost left-hand NAV (menu) Bar

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Hi,

Google Docs:


All of a sudden, I've lost the left-hand NAV bar that contains options such as

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Tech Writing: Documenting icons that occur multiple times on one screen

5

Hi,

I'm documenting a screen that has 7 graphs/charts. While the format differs, they all have the

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File Compare Utility that ignores end-of-line characters

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Does anyone know of a text file compare utility that can ignore end-of-line characters? I use

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Tech Writing: What is this symbol?

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In our web application, I encountered this symbol: Can someone please tell me what it's called?

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