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Relevant online resourcesTechnical writing and editing
Writing great documentation
Editing your own documentation
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
Line Editing in 10 Easy Steps (non-technical)
JavaScript Editing Project Calculator
Style guides and standards
Strunk's Elements of Style
Fowler's The King's English
Yale Web Style Guide, 3rd edition
Citation Style Guides
IBM Terminology
The W3C Markup Validation Service
Language
Center for Plain Language
Ten Commandments of Simplicity
39 Rules for Writing Plain English
Roget's Thesaurus (searchable)
Software and utilities
Notepad++ intelligent text editor
Microsoft HTML Help 1.4 SDK
HelpScribble help authoring tool
Amaya — the WC3 Web editor
GIMP open-source image software
Information architecture and markup
XML
DITA
DocBook
The DocBook Project
Design and typography
Microsoft Typography
Font Yukle
Psychology of Color
HTML Colors
Microsoft Word
Word MVP site
11 tips for creating better documents
Word 2003 Help and How-to
Word 2003 Courses
PerfectIt proofreading add-in for MS Word
Tips
To count the images in a large doc, run a macro containing the following code:
MsgBox ActiveDocument.InlineShapes.Count
Tutorials
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