RE: Finding errors in manuals

Subject: RE: Finding errors in manuals
From: "Chris Vickery" <cvickery -at- arenasolutions -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:26:50 -0700

In one of my manuals, I instructed users to "lick the Save Changes
button" when they were finished with a procedure.

Hope no-one got hepatitis.

Chris

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On Behalf Of Jodie Gilmore
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:07 AM
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Subject: RE: Finding errors in manuals

Oh - Word's spelling check can be hilarious. I worked with a guy from
India,
whose name was Sunil Gupta. Word always wanted to change his name to
Senile
Guppy. We made him a name tag with that on it at one conference...
luckily,
he has a good sense of humor!

__________________________________
Jodie Gilmore
Fulcrum Communications, LLC
Washougal, WA

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Of Nancy Samuels
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:12 AM
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Subject: RE: Finding errors in manuals

After a long meeting, I wrote up our decisions to send to team members
and
other interested people, one of whom is named Vicky. The spell check did
not
recognize "Vicky" and suggested an alternative. I had just corrected a
couple of other spelling errors, so before I read the whole message, my
finger clicked "replace." Word replaced "Vicky" with "Icky." I
immediately
realized the error, so I searched for "Icky" and changed it back and
then
sent out the document. Unfortunately, Word had changed all instances of
"Vicky" to "Icky."



My next error was even worse. When working for a military contractor, I
wrote a manual for the configuration management system. In the manual, I
instructed users to use the "hard dick drive."



Nancy

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References:
RE: Finding errors in manuals: From: Nancy Samuels
RE: Finding errors in manuals: From: Jodie Gilmore

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