Re: language usage preference

["Caroline Tabach" <caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com>]

A table is an interesting idea, I shall certainly try this out.
Since I am to all intents and purposes a lone technical writer, this
list is being very helpful to me.
For each report I have to write, why it is useful to the user, the
parameters they should set to get the report, further reports that can
be produced from it, the format of the result, and paramters displayed
in the result. There are tons of reports, so tables could definitely
make this information easier to present.

On 5/28/07, Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> wrote:
> So you are writing explanatory narrative? I guess I thought from your first
> post that you were writing a procedure.
>
> Why not do a table, if your goal is to present the details about the
> parameters for each kind of report?
>
>
> Bonnie Granat
> http://www.GranatEdit.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Caroline Tabach [mailto:caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com]
> >
> > Thanks for all the input.
> > The current section describes a wide range of reports
> > available in the system.
> > For many of the reports the user only has to input a time period and a
> > location and then click OK, while for others there are additional
> > paramters that have to be defined.
> > Running reports is actually described elsewhere in the user guide, but
> > the purpose of that sentence is to detail for each report the
> > parameters to be defined in order to run the report (if you do not
> > define the appropriate parameters you cannot run the report).
> > So maybe even shorter bullets will be enough?
> > e.g.
> > Parameters to define before running the report:
> > *Time span
> > *location
> > *RNC Number
> >
>
>
> --
Caroline Tabach
Technical Writer
e-mail: caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com
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