Microsoft Manual of Style
The term you should typically not include in a "click on" instruction
What is "button"?
SE headquarters are located in this city
What is Paris?
The number of spaces used after a period
What is one?
Society for Technical Communication
What was the professional association for technical communicators?
The tag that identifies text as italicized
What is <i>?
The term that should be used instead of "abort"
What is "cancel"?
This CEO took over in 2024
Who is Olivier Blum?
When introducing a list, the punctuation mark used after the lead-in phrase
What is a colon?
The markup language most commonly used for creating structured documentation
What is DITA or XML?
This tag is used to insert screen captures in a topic
What is <image>?
The preferred term to refer to a problem found in a software program
What is an "issue"?
SE's flagship platform for energy management and automation
What is EcoStruxure?
The verb form that ends in -ing
What is a gerund?
The practice of integrating documentation directly into software interfaces
What is embedded help?
This tag allows you to insert a blank page
What is <newpage>?
The capitalization style used for items in a bulleted list
What is sentence case?
January 2014
What is when the acquisition of Invensys by SE was completed?
The comma used after and/or in a series of 3 or more items
What is the Oxford comma?
This term refers to organizing and structuring content so users can easily find what they need
What is information architecture?
Apply this tag to make control names boldface
What is <uicontrol>?
When describing navigation, Microsoft recommends this phrase instead of “navigate to”
What is "go to"?
SE uses this to anticipate equipment failures before they occur
What is predictive analytics?
The point of view used in technical documentation
What is second person (you)?
This approach delivers content in small, reusable chunks for multiple outputs
What is structured authoring?
The tag used to format text as code in a sentence
What is <codeph>?