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... CHAPTER 3 IMPROVING WRITING SKILLS AND USING GRAPHICS OVERVIEW Writing well and inserting photographs can be difficult, especially for maintenance personnel who are not especially trained for it. This chapter provides some basic instructions to help you improve those skills.
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... 29 Figure 3-1. The five "Cs" for good writing.
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... • Insert pictures into your Word file after you have finished writing the text. • If you are going to print your maintenance practices, use pictures with high enough resolution to print clearly.
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... Embedded pictures increase Word file size. Still, if you plan to share Word maintenance practices or upload them to the TRB Web Board, you must embed the pictures.
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... Moving Pictures Around on the Page To move pictures around on the page: 1. Click on the picture and hold.
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... Before doing so, however, you should give the file another name to distinguish it from the version you will print for internal agency use (e.g., add "Web Board" or "WB" to end of the file name)
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... A Picture Does Not Move with the Text To force a picture to move with the text: 1. Double-click on the picture.


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