Elizabeth A. Shack http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog Technical Writer - Reporter - Science Writer Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:47:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en List of articles in The Blade http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/05/01/list-of-articles-in-the-blade/ http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/05/01/list-of-articles-in-the-blade/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 00:22:13 +0000 shack http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2006/09/15/list-of-articles-in-the-blade/ A list of my articles for The (Toledo, Ohio) Blade from 2003 through 2006 can be found here.

I can provide paper or electronic copies of many of these articles on request.

]]> http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/05/01/list-of-articles-in-the-blade/feed/ Ohio Secretary of State Knowledge Base update http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/04/30/ohio-secretary-of-state-knowledge-base-update/ http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/04/30/ohio-secretary-of-state-knowledge-base-update/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:00:00 +0000 shack http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2006/12/22/ohio-secretary-of-state-knowledge-base-update/ As one of two writers with Government Consulting Resources, Ltd., I wrote documentation for the Ohio Secretary of State Knowledge Base update in the fall of 2006. We designed the online help and PDF guides for users who submit Uniform Commercial Code filings on the state’s website. We also created a help system for the software application used by SOS employees who manage the filings.

To see the online help, go to https://secure.sos.state.oh.us/ucc/default.asp
and click the Help link in the upper right.

The sections I wrote include:
• Amend Previous Filings
• Search for Filed Documents (Acknowledgements)
• Manage Representatives
• View and Edit Your Profile

The same guide is avaible in PDF format. Click here to download it.

]]> http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/04/30/ohio-secretary-of-state-knowledge-base-update/feed/ Adobe FrameMaker http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/03/16/adobe-framemaker/ http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/03/16/adobe-framemaker/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:36:02 +0000 shack http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/03/16/adobe-framemaker/ A few samples created in Adobe FrameMaker (links go to PDFs):

• Tables in Adobe FrameMaker: A Basic Tutorial - Covers basic concepts, including adding rows, columns, and titles and using the Table Designer.

• Native Plants of the Oak Openings Region - Describes four plants native to Northwest Ohio.

• How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich - Instructions for making a pb&j sandwich.

]]> http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/03/16/adobe-framemaker/feed/ Tutorials http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/03/03/recent-clips/ http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/03/03/recent-clips/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:43:11 +0000 shack http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/03/03/recent-clips/ Tutorials on Associated Content:

• How to Put Clickable RSS Feeds on MySpace with Widgetbox - Create a flash-based RSS widget with clickable links to display any blog on your MySpace profile.

• Creating and Formatting Tables in Adobe FrameMaker - Covers basic concepts in using tables in Adobe FrameMaker, including creating tables, adding rows, columns, and titles to tables, and using the Table Designer to change the appearance of a table’s rows and columns.

• Use Free Online Tutorials to Learn to Type in Dvorak - Use free online tutorials to learn to type in the Dvorak keyboard layout, which is faster and puts less stress on the hands than QWERTY.

• How to Format Your Manuscript for an Online Critique Group - Use search and replace in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org Writer to convert your fiction submission to plain text or html for online workshops.

• How to Move Posts from LiveJournal to WordPress - Export LiveJournal posts and import them into a WordPress blog on your own domain without installing any new software or plugins.

]]> http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2007/03/03/recent-clips/feed/ Creating Character Emotions http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2006/09/01/creating-character-emotions/ http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2006/09/01/creating-character-emotions/#comments Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:34:35 +0000 shack http://www.shack.smallinfinity.net/blog/2006/09/01/creating-character-emotions/ My review of Ann Hood’s Creating Character Emotions is up in the Sept./Oct. issue of Vision: A Resource for Writers.

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