| | Operator Manuals / User Guides
Comprehensive User Guides and Operator's Manuals that are proactive in
nature can dramatically improve the speed of learning for new operators.
Documentation that specifically looks to improve ease-of-use and reduce the
learning curve by supplying extra detail and understanding of your products can
reduce problems and questions later in the usage cycle of your products.
Effective Operator's Manuals should guide a new user from "novice" to
"advanced user"
by providing adequate product information in your manuals rather than
tying up your support personnel with repeat call on the recurring issues.
Proactive Publishing Advantages
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Identify
most difficult areas of product usage and devote more time and space to
thoroughly explain usage in these areas.
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Design
Engineers can identify potential areas of difficulty based on product
design. |
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Support Representatives can identify recurring user problems. |
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Product evaluation by
experienced Proactive
Publishing Engineers can identify additional potential problem
areas. |
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Provide
adequate preliminary information for novice users. |
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Provide
new operators
a solid foundation of product knowledge to guide them toward use of more
advanced features. |
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Extensive
troubleshooting and problem solving information will be integrated
throughout operation sections of manuals and not isolated in an appendix. |
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Comprehensive
Index pages developed with multiple references to important entries. |
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Comprehensive
Glossaries developed when appropriate. |
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