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MadCap offers MadCamp training seminar

July 14, 2010 techcommdood

Image via Wikipedia I received the following email and thought to share it with you all. MadCap Software would like to remind you there is still time to signup for MadCap’s MadCamp, the 4-day intensive training seminar covering a range of technical writing topics, including advanced single-souring and CSS development. The exclusive 4-day training seminar [...]

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Latest Chrome update breaks locally viewed WebHelp

June 9, 2010 techcommdood

Image via Wikipedia This was brought up today on techwr-l, and several people have confirmed that at least the latest build and perhaps the previous build of Chrome has issues displaying locally-viewed WebHelp generated from the following confirmed sources (there may be others): RoboHelp Flare Help & Manual If you encounter this issue, please report [...]

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Silly error of the week

February 26, 2010 techcommdood

I ran into this error just now and laughed out loud. I’ll let you study it and then learn how I ran into it. Are you ready for this? I pressed the left cursor button on my keyboard when at the insertion point of a table. Rather than going up to the previous line like [...]

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First Full Day of Using MadCap Flare

March 2, 2009 techcommdood

I’ve used many Help Authoring and Content Authoring tools over the years. The first tool I picked up, aside from Microsoft Word, was Aldus (remember them?) PageMaker. From there I went on to learn Quark Xpress for some of the translation layout and typesetting work I was doing after college. Throughout my career I then [...]

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