RE: Subject: Re: Consistency in headings

["Ron Hearn" <RHearn -at- cucbc -dot- com>]

My preference is for non-numbered headings because of the white space
they gobble up. Also, I've found that Word does funny things to numbered
heads. So I avoid them unless it's gun-to-the-head time.

Ron


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Of Nandini Garud
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:08 PM
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Subject: Subject: Re: Consistency in headings

Another burning issue at my company is which kind of headings are in
vogue
right now? (My take on it, more navigable?) Numbered 2.3.5 with indented
text that makes page narrow, or non-numbered which guides through font
size
and placement of headings. Add more than four levels, and you don't know
which is which unless you resort to run-in-heads. Would you contact me
either on-list or off-list with your feedback?

I always felt the gerunds (mnemonic: g at the end) such as opening,
connecting gave an illusion of action. "How to open"... construct is
wordy
and takes more real estate. However, these can be easily ported into
FAQs.
You can go one step further and present them in Google-like "I am
feeling
lucky":

Heading: I want default setup
	   Steps.

Heading: I want custom setup
	   Steps.

Heading 2: 	I am an administrator
		Separate instructions

Too wild? This will be like the knowledge base customers encounter on
the
Web site where they type in questions in human language and get
intelligent
(better than live support sometimes) answers. Different questions with
the
same answers can be combined under one question (heading) and a complex
heading with multiple answers/options can be broken up into answers such
as:
Option A, Option B,... I did this in the Primus KB for a major company.
The
result was: support cost was cut in half.

But tell me please, numbered or unnumbered? What is preferred?

Nandini


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