Jay Maechtlen – technical writing, lasers, and stuff | technical communicators and communications

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Video card reverts to analog output if digital monitor not detected at startup.

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summary of Dr. Gilbert’s testimony about Toyota runaway problem

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Mar/10

4

Learning RoboHelp

Learning RoboHelp by taking a small existing doc and converting it to a Help project.

Jan/10

16

Lessons Re-Learned

Backing up prior to making config changes can save much anguish.

Dec/09

14

Adventures with Inkscape

Inkscape is a pretty nice graphic editor, but still has major limitations for Word (and OpenOffice) users.

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Mounting a partition or drive in an NTFS folder sounds useful, but there are drawbacks.

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Jul/09

10

OpenOffice vs MS Word

When saving to Word format, a documents using advanced features may break because Word doesn’t directly support those exact features. Some features Word doesn’t support: Xref to contents of text box. Xrefs/bookmarks with spaces in names. Tries to fix by using %20 in lieu. Stuff that Word supports but OOo doesn’t translate perfectly: Equations: spaces [...]

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Jun/09

26

Open Office and MS Word

OpenOffice versus MS Word’s formats, crashes, pain, bugs.

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