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How do you build eLearning?

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Do you import a bunch of PowerPoint slides, add a player skin with the obligatory Next and Previous buttons, attach some word documents as resources, and then hit publish? Should this be eLearning? Would a reference document do the trick instead? Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2003. Would it be better as a facilitated workshop?

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Writing & Grammar: Where Did My Name Go?

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It seems that he had sent out a document for review. He had carefully followed the procedure for protecting the document for tracked changes, and he had sent it to four people. In Word 2003, that function is found under Tools > Options > User Information. Some of his reviewers were working in Word 2003.

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Would vs. Will

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In training documents and manuals, we often have to tell the reader what will (or would) happen if they do (or did) a certain action.       If you press cancel, the document will not be saved.          If you pressed cancel, the document would not be saved.

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Happy New Year! (or is it New Year's?)

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  Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. (no apostrophe) and Happy New Year!

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Writing & Grammar: A Brief History of Editing

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They are writing their corrections on a printout and later making the corrections to their document. I recently taught a group of accountants who each had two wide-screen monitors set up in portrait orientation so that they could view two legal-size documents side by side. Do you fax or email or walk your documents around for review?

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Editing with Acrobat: Get the Comment Pane's Numbers to Match Acrobat's Page Numbers

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Acrobat picked this number up from the desktop publishing software used to create the document. Or do you need a reliable way to get feedback from several people on a document or PowerPoint deck? Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script?

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Microsoft Word: Customize the Status Bar

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  In Word 2003 (and earlier versions), grayed-out shortcuts line the status bar at the bottom of the screen.   Click the Section shortcut, or any of the position shortcuts, and the Go To dialog box opens, allowing you to go to any section, line, page, or position in the document.

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