Something new for me

Back in March 2009, I was laid off from a job I liked. I was given a very small consulting contract from that employer and worked that for about a year. It gave me time to think about what I wanted to do next with myself. Technical writing or? I’ve been a technical writer for [...]

Notes to self early one morning

I shouldn’t take decongestants. Ever. I can’t sleep even 18 hours after I take one. So I’m awake at 4am. Actually I was awake at 3am, but I listened to my husband snore for 45 minutes before I gave into the inevitable and resentfully, but quietly, got up to make coffee. He’s still snoring. Maybe [...]

SEQ fields

SEQ fields overcame a bug in older versions of Word. The bug showed up in about Word 6. The bug was in autonumbering; essentially, autonumbering didn’t work. Word would ignore or randomly change your number settings with other settings. This was bad for tech authors, as we use a lot of autonumbering. The SEQ field [...]