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• Introduction
• About this guide
• Style-guide highlights
• General principles
• Style and tone
• Documenting future features
• Accessible content
• Writing for a global audience
• Writing inclusive documentation
• Avoiding excessive claims
• Language and grammar
• Abbreviations
• Active voice
• Anthropomorphism
• Articles (a, an, the)
• Capitalization
• Clause order
• Contractions
• Cross-references
• Plurals in parentheses
• Possessives
• Prepositions
• Present tense
• Pronouns
• Second person
• Spelling
• Verb forms in reference documentation
• Word list
• Punctuation
• Colons
• Commas
• Dashes
• Ellipses
• Exclamation points
• Hyphens
• Parentheses
• Periods
• Pluralizing a single letter
• Quotation marks
• Semicolons
• Slashes
• Formatting and organization
• Dates and times
• Figures and other images
• Headings and titles
• Lists
• Notes and other notices
• Numbers
• Phone numbers
• Procedures
• Spaces between sentences
• Tables
• Units of measurement
• Computer interfaces
• API reference code comments
• Code in text
• Code samples
• Documenting command-line syntax

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• Introduction
• About this guide
• Style-guide highlights
• General principles
• Style and tone
• Documenting future features
• Accessible content
• Writing for a global audience
• Writing inclusive documentation
• Avoiding excessive claims
• Language and grammar
• Abbreviations
• Active voice
• Anthropomorphism
• Articles (a, an, the)
• Capitalization
• Clause order
• Contractions
• Cross-references
• Plurals in parentheses
• Possessives
• Prepositions
• Present tense
• Pronouns
• Second person
• Spelling
• Verb forms in reference documentation
• Word list
• Punctuation
• Colons
• Commas
• Dashes
• Ellipses
• Exclamation points
• Hyphens
• Parentheses
• Periods
• Pluralizing a single letter
• Quotation marks
• Semicolons
• Slashes
• Formatting and organization
• Dates and times
• Figures and other images
• Headings and titles
• Lists
• Notes and other notices
• Numbers
• Phone numbers
• Procedures
• Spaces between sentences
• Tables
• Units of measurement
• Computer interfaces
• API reference code comments
• Code in text
• Code samples
• Documenting command-line syntax

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• Introduction
• About this guide
• Style-guide highlights
• General principles
• Style and tone
• Documenting future features
• Accessible content
• Writing for a global audience
• Writing inclusive documentation
• Avoiding excessive claims
• Language and grammar
• Abbreviations
• Active voice
• Anthropomorphism
• Articles (a, an, the)
• Capitalization
• Clause order
• Contractions
• Cross-references
• Plurals in parentheses
• Possessives
• Prepositions
• Present tense
• Pronouns
• Second person
• Spelling
• Verb forms in reference documentation
• Word list
• Punctuation
• Colons
• Commas
• Dashes
• Ellipses
• Exclamation points
• Hyphens
• Parentheses
• Periods
• Pluralizing a single letter
• Quotation marks
• Semicolons
• Slashes
• Formatting and organization
• Dates and times
• Figures and other images
• Headings and titles
• Lists
• Notes and other notices
• Numbers
• Phone numbers
• Procedures
• Spaces between sentences
• Tables
• Units of measurement
• Computer interfaces
• API reference code comments
• Code in text
• Code samples
• Documenting command-line syntax

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• Introduction
• About this guide
• Style-guide highlights
• General principles
• Style and tone
• Documenting future features
• Accessible content
• Writing for a global audience
• Writing inclusive documentation
• Avoiding excessive claims
• Language and grammar
• Abbreviations
• Active voice
• Anthropomorphism
• Articles (a, an, the)
• Capitalization
• Clause order
• Contractions
• Cross-references
• Plurals in parentheses
• Possessives
• Prepositions
• Present tense
• Pronouns
• Second person
• Spelling
• Verb forms in reference documentation
• Word list
• Punctuation
• Colons
• Commas
• Dashes
• Ellipses
• Exclamation points
• Hyphens
• Parentheses
• Periods
• Pluralizing a single letter
• Quotation marks
• Semicolons
• Slashes
• Formatting and organization
• Dates and times
• Figures and other images
• Headings and titles
• Lists
• Notes and other notices
• Numbers
• Phone numbers
• Procedures
• Spaces between sentences
• Tables
• Units of measurement
• Computer interfaces
• API reference code comments
• Code in text
• Code samples
• Documenting command-line syntax

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• Introduction
• About this guide
• Style-guide highlights
• General principles
• Style and tone
• Documenting future features
• Accessible content
• Writing for a global audience
• Writing inclusive documentation
• Avoiding excessive claims
• Language and grammar
• Abbreviations
• Active voice
• Anthropomorphism
• Articles (a, an, the)
• Capitalization
• Clause order
• Contractions
• Cross-references
• Plurals in parentheses
• Possessives
• Prepositions
• Present tense
• Pronouns
• Second person
• Spelling
• Verb forms in reference documentation
• Word list
• Punctuation
• Colons
• Commas
• Dashes
• Ellipses
• Exclamation points
• Hyphens
• Parentheses
• Periods
• Pluralizing a single letter
• Quotation marks
• Semicolons
• Slashes
• Formatting and organization
• Dates and times
• Figures and other images
• Headings and titles
• Lists
• Notes and other notices
• Numbers
• Phone numbers
• Procedures
• Spaces between sentences
• Tables
• Units of measurement
• Computer interfaces
• API reference code comments
• Code in text
• Code samples
• Documenting command-line syntax

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• Introduction
• About this guide
• Style-guide highlights
• General principles
• Style and tone
• Documenting future features
• Accessible content
• Writing for a global audience
• Writing inclusive documentation
• Avoiding excessive claims
• Language and grammar
• Abbreviations
• Active voice
• Anthropomorphism
• Articles (a, an, the)
• Capitalization
• Clause order
• Contractions
• Cross-references
• Plurals in parentheses
• Possessives
• Prepositions
• Present tense
• Pronouns
• Second person
• Spelling
• Verb forms in reference documentation
• Word list
• Punctuation
• Colons
• Commas
• Dashes
• Ellipses
• Exclamation points
• Hyphens
• Parentheses
• Periods
• Pluralizing a single letter
• Quotation marks
• Semicolons
• Slashes
• Formatting and organization
• Dates and times
• Figures and other images
• Headings and titles
• Lists
• Notes and other notices
• Numbers
• Phone numbers
• Procedures
• Spaces between sentences
• Tables
• Units of measurement
• Computer interfaces
• API reference code comments
• Code in text
• Code samples
• Documenting command-line syntax

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• Introduction
• About this guide
• Style-guide highlights
• General principles
• Style and tone
• Documenting future features
• Accessible content
• Writing for a global audience
• Writing inclusive documentation
• Avoiding excessive claims
• Language and grammar
• Abbreviations
• Active voice
• Anthropomorphism
• Articles (a, an, the)
• Capitalization
• Clause order
• Contractions
• Cross-references
• Plurals in parentheses
• Possessives
• Prepositions
• Present tense
• Pronouns
• Second person
• Spelling
• Verb forms in reference documentation
• Word list
• Punctuation
• Colons
• Commas
• Dashes
• Ellipses
• Exclamation points
• Hyphens
• Parentheses
• Periods
• Pluralizing a single letter
• Quotation marks
• Semicolons
• Slashes
• Formatting and organization
• Dates and times
• Figures and other images
• Headings and titles
• Lists
• Notes and other notices
• Numbers
• Phone numbers
• Procedures
• Spaces between sentences
• Tables
• Units of measurement
• Computer interfaces
• API reference code comments
• Code in text
• Code samples
• Documenting command-line syntax

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