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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction to the Fourth Edition | |
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| General Topics | |
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| Microsoft style and voice | |
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| Principles of Microsoft style | |
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| Bias-free communication | |
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| Anthropomorphism | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Content for the web | |
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| Make the right content choices | |
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| Text for the web | |
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| Video content for the web | |
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| Blogs | |
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| Community-provided content | |
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| Evaluate your content | |
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| Help users find your content | |
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| International considerations for web content | |
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| Accessibility considerations for web content | |
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| Legal considerations for web content | |
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| Content for a worldwide audience | |
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| Global English syntax | |
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| Machine translation syntax | |
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| Terminology and word choice | |
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| Technical terms | |
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| Jargon | |
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| Latin and other non-English words | |
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| Global art | |
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| Examples and scenarios | |
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| International currency | |
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| Time and place | |
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| Names and contact information | |
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| Fonts | |
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| Web, software, and HTML issues | |
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| Legal issues with worldwide content | |
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| Additional globalization resources | |
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| Accessible content | |
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| Accessibility guidelines and requirements | |
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| Accessible webpages | |
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| Accessible writing | |
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| Accessible graphics and design | |
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| Acceptable terminology | |
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| The user interface | |
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| Windows user interface | |
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| Windows Phone user interface | |
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| User interface elements | |
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| Ribbons, menus, and toolbars | |
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| Webpage controls, dialog boxes, and property sheets | |
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| Backstage view | |
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| Control Panel | |
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| Messages | |
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| Other user interface elements | |
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| Modes of interaction | |
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| Mouse terminology | |
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| Key names | |
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| Content for multiple platforms | |
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| User interface text | |
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| User interface formatting | |
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| Procedures and technical content | |
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| Procedures | |
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| Document conventions | |
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| Cloud computing style | |
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| Reference documentation | |
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| Code examples | |
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| Security | |
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| Command syntax | |
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| File names and extensions | |
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| Version identifiers | |
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| Out-of-band release terminology | |
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| Protocols | |
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| XML tag, element, and attribute formatting | |
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| HTML tag, element, and attribute formatting | |
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| Readme files and release notes | |
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| Practical issues of style | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Titles and headings | |
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| Microsoft in product and service names | |
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| Lists | |
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| Tables | |
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| Cross-references | |
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| Notes and tips | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Dates | |
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| Phone numbers | |
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| Time zones | |
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| Measurements and units of measure | |
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| URLs, addresses | |
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| Names of special characters | |
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| Art, captions, and callouts | |
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| Bibliographies and citations | |
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| Page layout | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Verbs and verb forms | |
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| Agreement | |
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| Voice | |
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| Mood | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Words ending in -ing | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Prefixes | |
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| Dangling and misplaced modifiers | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Periods | |
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| Commas | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Colons | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Quotation marks | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Hyphens, hyphenation | |
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| Dashes | |
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| Ellipses | |
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| Slash mark | |
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| Formatting punctuation | |
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| Indexes and keywords | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Keywords and online index entries | |
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| Acronyms and other abbreviations | |
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| How to use acronyms and other abbreviations | |
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| Table of acronyms and other abbreviations | |
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| How to use abbreviations of measurements | |
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| Table of abbreviations of measurements | |
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| Process for adopting new acronyms or abbreviations | |