A writer-friendly template:
▪provides only a manageable number of styles ▪uses a well-thought-out convention for style names so that writers can easily remember style names ▪provides keyboard shortcuts to efficiently assign formats ▪provides styles that minimize the need to manually tweak line breaks and page breaks ▪provides styles that can be changed later without having to revise the whole document Important: Don’t underestimate the importance of an efficient template. Typically, user assistance needs to be updated frequently—in particular, software user assistance. Each template inefficiency will multiply with the number of updates you make. If your document is translated into foreign languages, inefficiencies will also multiply with the number of translations.
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