Content Controls and Making Beautiful Documents
In a previous post we talked about Accelerated Authoring™ as a collection of tools and methods to enable improved productivity for knowledge workers. Content controls are part of the Accelerated Authoring collection and are the subject of this post. Specifically, we will talk about using Content Controls to create highly formatted documents.
Most companies have multiple series of documents – say case studies or application notes – that will be prepared over time. It might be a good idea for the first one in each series to be prepared by a graphic designer (or at least by a team member with design skills).
In practice, keeping the design from slipping over time as writers and subject matter experts edit documents in the series can be challenging. Inadvertent clicks tend to cause images to move, alignment to be lost and other changes that result in:
- Design deterioration – documents have a less consistent and less professional look.
- Time and energy lost in trying to get back to the original formatting.
To read more about Editing Highly Formatted Documents in Word – and how Content Controls can be used as part of a complete methodology for enabling staff to create and update highly designed documents, download content controls and making beautiful documents.
Look for the next post about anticipating and preventing document gaffes (proactive document quality). Katriel
