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Actual spec, for those who don't feel like emailing an Excel file to get their free copy: https://technicalwritingexpert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/1...

While I appreciate this being shared, I sure hope the nice people at technicalwritingexpert.com have the "written authority of an officer of ASD" to reproduce and/or publish this information!

The all caps, imperative examples remove me of old school text adventure commands. In fact, that’s how I try to write my own to-do lists or project milestones: VERB [ADJECTIVE] OBJECT (e.g. GET LAMP). If I can’t reduce a task or milestone name to that level of abstraction, then it can probably be broken down into smaller steps. Plus it’s a fun mental challenge. :)

Relax, it works with Libreoffice and you can copy and paste the table into an email and fill it in. That works in Evolution (EWS) too.

It's still pretty mad!

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