A Guide to Publishing User Manuals

User manuals are instruction guides that accompany many high tech products. The main purpose of such texts is to teach the user how to operate a particular software package easily and effectively. This guide explains how to create and publish technical manuals in a corporate environment. It is aimed at those with little technical writing, layout or design experience. Special emphasis is placed on organizing the document, administering the documentation process, style guidelines, desktop publishing techniques, graphics, drawing and screen shots.