RE: Advice on rewriting translated ops manuals

Subject: RE: Advice on rewriting translated ops manuals
From: "Janoff, Steven" <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com>
To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:12:34 -0700

Cute, but yes, in context, that worked. We also got rid of those introductory statements, which were redundant: "To shut down your computer, do the following:". That's when the topic title was "To shut down your computer" or "Shutting Down Your Computer."

Steve

-----Original Message-----
Peter Neilson wrote (Wed., June 26, 2013 1:11 PM):

Click Start to shut down. ->
Click Start.

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Re: Advice on rewriting translated ops manuals: From: Alec Chakenov
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Re: Advice on rewriting translated ops manuals: From: Peter Neilson

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