Re: Finding errors in manuals

["Suzette Leeming" <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Last year I broke my right wrist quite badly. Since we had a new release
coming out and were pushing to get the documentation done (I'm a lone
techwriter), I insisted on continuing to work, from home, on my laptop
(touchpad was easier to work with my left hand than a mouse).

Unfortunately I was on serious painkillers at the time (I had to have the
wrist operated on and 3 pins put in to hold it). When I finally came out of
my drug haze I came across the stupidest things that I'd written.
Fortunately, I was blessed with a sense of humour and just made sure to
review everything I had written and send new PDF copies to our customers.

Stuff happens. We want to be perfect, but very few of us are.

Suzette Leeming
Stouffville, Ontario

On 5/17/07, Jeff Hanvey <jewahe -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
>
> Connie Giordano wrote:
> > I literally just came across this in a manual I'm editing right now:
> >
> > "Press <ENTER> to exit:"  Hope that makes you feel better ;-)
>
> Our product is made up of multiple application. Each application is
> named using a common prefix and an abbreviation indicating the purpose
> of that application. One of these applications is a security
> application, and it is therefore named "ProdSec" (well, not exactly).
>
> I now know just how close the "C" and "X" keys are on the standard
> keyboard. I now do a global search on that certain term.
>
> Luckily, the doc has never gone out with that particular mistake,
> although there have been a couple of close calls.
>
> --
> JWH
>
> --
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