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Creating a Walkthrough Document in Word

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

Now that you have created your walkthrough it’s time to start converting it into something that is a lot more consumable. And the first example that we will show is how you can convert the PowerPoint version of the walkthrough into a Word document. How to do it… To do this, just switch to the...

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Choosing Which Elements To Include In The Document

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

The walkthrough that we just created is the default template that is used by the Author Tools for PowerPoint and is my favorite way to publish out document. It has a How To Recipe at the beginning of the document and then a detailed step by step Walkthrough at the end of each section. And...

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Using the Style Templates

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

To make things even easier for you to create different types of documents we have included a number of Style templates within the Author Tools which will turn on and off elements and flags for the creation of the documents based on the purpose of the document. This allows you to quickly configure the options...

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Creating Custom Mashup Documents

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

Although the standard templates are great, the number of different combinations and permutations of elements and flags that you can enable are practically unlimited, so we haven’t included them all. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t pick multiple elements to create different types of documents that mashup multiple visualizations and also work in new...

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Creating a Thumbnail Walkthrough

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

Another type of element that is part of the style templates is a Thumbnail view. This shows smaller versions of the images in a grid rather than sequentially and is great to explain steps while not taking up a lot of space in the document. How to do it… To create a Thumbnail style walkthrough...

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