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		<title>&#8220;Should I use an Index for my help file or technical document?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/?p=12843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[© Ugur Akinci My SHORT answer is: you should always use an Index for all long documents and help files, especially if they are in print format. &#8220;How long?&#8221; There are no hard and fast rules for that. It&#8217;s up to your personal judgement and/or what your client/manager asks for. It depends on the &#8220;document [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write Help Files for Eclipse Open-Source Software Platform</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2012/01/06/write-help-files-for-eclipse-open-source-software-platform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[© Ugur Akinci Eclipse is a relatively new and open-source integrated software development environment that has created additional opportunities for technical writers who write help files, or &#8220;user assistance documentation&#8221; as it&#8217;s also known in the industry. Check out http://www.eclipse.org/ and http://eclipse.org/org/. You need to download (free) and install Eclipse on your system before you can use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WebWorks White Paper: &#8220;The Evolution of Online Help&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2011/05/27/webworks-white-paper-the-evolution-of-online-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/?p=11671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[© Ugur Akinci WebWorks has just published a seminal white paper about the characteristics of next-generation online help systems. In this new era of socially networked (Twitter, Facebook) users who want everything on the go (iPad and &#8220;smart phones&#8221;) and insist on becoming a part of the &#8220;conversation,&#8221; the old-fashioned help files generated by HATs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance, March 13-16, 2011, CA</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2011/01/22/writersua-conference-for-software-user-assistance-conference-march-13-16-2011-ca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a user assistance (help file) writer and developer, here is an upcoming conference you need to be a part of&#8230; Those who are into DITA, XML, structured authoring and all kinds of &#8220;single-sourced documentation&#8221; projects should have a look as well. Training budgets are still tight in many companies but this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Should Today&#8217;s Ideal Help (User Assistance) Format Look Like?</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2010/10/21/what-should-todays-ideal-help-user-assistance-format-look-like/</link>
		<comments>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2010/10/21/what-should-todays-ideal-help-user-assistance-format-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/?p=9066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[© 2010 Ugur Akinci Alan Porter of WebWorks help authoring software has released a new white paper titled &#8220;Delivering Help for Today&#8217;s Web&#8221; which can be ordered from aporter@webworks.com Porter raises a number of important issues that I&#8217;ve also been thinking about for some time. It&#8217;s true that yesterday&#8217;s static help file system is losing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Free Help File Software: HelpNDoc</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2010/10/13/a-free-help-file-software-helpndoc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2010/10/13/a-free-help-file-software-helpndoc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[© 2010 Ugur Akinci My readers know my fondness for Adobe RoboHelp for creating help files. But for those who cannot afford RoboHelp there are some free alternatives out there like HelpNDoc; free at least for personal use. If you need to use these programs commercially you may need to pay a small licensing fee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Free Help Applications &#8211; Two Design Philosophies</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2009/09/10/two-free-help-applications-two-design-philosophies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2009/09/10/two-free-help-applications-two-design-philosophies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/?p=3544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[© 2009 Ugur Akinci There are some great and free help file applications out there. All of them use Microsoft&#8217;s HTML Help engine but they are designed and packaged very differently. I&#8217;d like to introduce and compare two of such freeware products today: HelpMaker and Precision Help. The differences between the two are obvious: one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Basic &#8220;RoboHelp 8 for Word&#8221; Tutorial</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2009/09/02/a-robohelp-tutorial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2009/09/02/a-robohelp-tutorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[© 2010 Ugur Akinci A. Introduction This introductory Adobe RoboHelp tutorial shows the basic steps required to create a RoboHelp 8 for Word project. (Robohelp comes in two basic flavors: Robohelp for Word, and plain Robohelp HTML). In this tutorial, we will use RoboHelp 8 for Word and generate a  Help file in Winhelp 2000 [...]]]></description>
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