What is the right tool to use to write the documentation?

What is the best tool to use to write an operations manual? I have used Word
and it is akward to wrap text around an imported picture. What is the best
tool? Is it Publisher?

I am taking screen prints from my application and pasting them into the
document and then writing the instructions for the end user.

Also what the best approach to capture screen prints and have the ability to
customize the paste in picture. I'm think of initially copy the screen print
into "Paint" and then using the tools there to cut what I need to drop into
the operations manual.

The best program depends on your skills and the ability of your printer
(person, not peripheral). And try SnagIt for your screenshots.


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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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"JeffH" wrote in message
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What is the best tool to use to write an operations manual? I have used
Word
and it is akward to wrap text around an imported picture. What is the
best
tool? Is it Publisher?

I am taking screen prints from my application and pasting them into the
document and then writing the instructions for the end user.

Also what the best approach to capture screen prints and have the ability
to
customize the paste in picture. I'm think of initially copy the screen
print
into "Paint" and then using the tools there to cut what I need to drop
into
the operations manual.

JeffH wrote:
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Also what the best approach to capture screen prints and have the ability to
customize the paste in picture. I'm think of initially copy the screen print
into "Paint" and then using the tools there to cut what I need to drop into
the operations manual.



For a recent newsletter I laid out, I used the "print screen" keyboard
button, pasted that screen sized image into my pub doc (geeze it was
big), cropped it down to the info I wanted, then resized that image
using the alt/cursor or is it ctr/cursor...to keep the perspective and
pasted it into the screen of a clip art computer monitor icon sized
image. Maybe nobody noticed, it was subtle, but I liked it

Maybe the simple way is easier