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First, I agree completely with what Susan has written.
I should add that in some companies, style guides are set not only for
documentation but for marketing communications, too--to be sure that
everything that is written to be customer-facing has a unified
treatment.
Thus, if you are new to a company and you are unaware of a style guide
being used for docs, you might also check with Marketing to see
whether they have any such guides. On the off-chance they do, you may
save yourself some rather painful editing time later...and the
corporate image types will appreciate your initiative.
David
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:52:01 -0500, Susan W. Gallagher
<sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net> wrote:
>
> Well, pretty much the standard answer -- "It depends" --
> applies here. <g>
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