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Subject:Re: Planning modular help for software packages From:"Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Tony Markos" <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:47:20 -0500
That's not modular Help organization. You may have chunked down the
topics, but the content isn't modular just because you chunk it down.
On 2/28/06, Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> My approach would be:
>
> Abstract out of the existing product the essential
> end-user goals accomplished . Decompose the goals
> into tasks. Maybe sub-tasks also. Presto - modular
> help organization.
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