To Outline or Not to Outline?

After you start writing your manual, you may want to switch to outline view. It provides a quick way to organize your manual, and also creates the Document Map for your manual automatically. To switch to outline view, click Outline (View menu).

Even if you don’t outline, you can still have a Document Map   Just apply heading styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on) to your headings. You can use built-in heading styles or your own custom heading styles. For more information on custom heading styles, see Reuse Your Custom Formatting. Change to normal view for speedier writing and editing   Click Normal (View menu).

Want to Keep Different Versions of Your Manual?

As you develop your manual, you may have different ideas about how to organize it, or even about what content to include. Instead of saving different versions of your manual as separate documents, you can save different versions of your manual in the same document file.

Click Versions (File menu), and then click Save Now. To give a brief description of which version you’re saving, type a comment in the Save Version dialog box.

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