The Global English Style Guide or MS Project 2000 for Dummies Quick Reference

The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market

Author: John Kohl

This detailed, example-driven guide illustrates how much you can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. Accompanied by an abundance of clearly explained examples, the Global English guidelines show you how to write documentation that is optimized for non-native speakers of English, translators, and even machine-translation software, as well as for native speakers of English. You'll find dozens of guidelines that you won't find in any other source, along with thorough explanations of why each guideline is useful. The author also includes revision strategies, as well as caveats that will help you avoid applying guidelines incorrectly.

Focusing primarily on sentence-level stylistic issues, problematic grammatical constructions, and terminology issues, this book addresses the following topics: ways to simplify your writing style and make it consistent; ambiguities that most writers and editors are not aware of, and how to eliminate those ambiguities; how to make your sentence structure more explicit so that your sentences are easier for native and non-native speakers to read and understand; punctuation and capitalization guidelines that improve readability and make translation more efficient; and howlanguage technologies such as controlled-authoring software can facilitate the adoption of Global English as a corporate standard.

This text is intended for anyone who uses written English to communicate technical information to a global audience. Technical writers, technical editors, science writers, and training instructors are just a few of the professions for which this book is essential reading. Even if producing technical information is not yourprimary job function, the Global English guidelines can help you communicate more effectively with colleagues around the world.

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MS Project 2000 for Dummies Quick Reference

Author: Nancy Stevenson

This easy-to-read reference helps you harness the power of the project management capabilities of Microsoft Project 2000. No-fluff instructions and tips show you to create a plan, build tasks, and outline stages in your plan. Discover to use the vast menu of features in Microsoft Project 2000: scheduling, reporting, resource allocation, workflow management, and project tracking. You can even plan your deadlines depending on constraining events or costs. With this handy guide at your side, you can come in under budget and in plenty of time.

Table of Contents:

	The Big Picture: Microsoft Project 2000	1
Pt. I	Creating Your Project Plan	23
Pt. II	Building Tasks	35
Pt. III	Outlining	45
Pt. IV	Setting Timing with Dependencies, Constraints, and Deadlines	55
Pt. V	Defining Resources	65
Pt. VI	Associating Resources with Costs	77
Pt. VII	Making Resource Assignments	85
Pt. VIII	Refining and Finalizing Your Project Plan	93
Pt. IX	Formatting Your Project	111
Pt. X	Saving Your Baseline and Protecting Your Project	127
Pt. XI	Monitoring Project Activity	135
Pt. XII	Reporting and Printing	153
Pt. XIII	Working Online with Microsoft Project	171
App	Installation Requirements for Project Central	183
	Glossary: Tech Talk	189
	Index	195