Vitalware Technical Style Dictionary

This dictionary is designed to help team members maintain a consistent voice across technical documents and to store technical style usage information specific to our company. Vitalware uses the online Microsoft Style Guide as our primary reference for technical style.

Using the Dictionary:

  • Search for your term in the search bar. Search results include topics with your term as a title and topics in which your term is mentioned in the text.
  • Expand each letter in the left navigation pane to see existing topics for that letter.

Important Note: Decisions about style for company technical documents should be made based on the following order of precedence:

  1. Utilize any Vitalware specific instructions found in this guide.
  2. Utilize instructions found in the Microsoft Style Guide for your topic. Many topics in this Vitalware guide are linked to the associated Microsoft Style Guide page.
  3. Email TechnicalWriters@vitalware.com with technical style questions or feedback.

What's New:

March 2, 2021

Added copyright information to Vitalware Branding.

December 8, 2020

  • Added the navigation and feedback buttons to the search results page.

October 13, 2020

  • Added a note to rights indicating the standard wording when a user needs to have additional rights in order to use a feature.

September 14, 2020

  • Added guidance regarding not using the word detach.
  • Updated the remove topic with guidance about using remove instead of detach.
  • Added information distinguishing export from extract.

August 14, 2020

July 22, 2020

  • Added guidance regarding capitalization for buttons in the Buttons topic.
  • Added email formatting guidelines to the Email topic.
  • Added topics for Reset, Clear, and Export.
  • Updated Print topic to distinguish Print from Export.

July 10, 2020

July 8, 2020

  • Added information about the Oxford comma to Punctuation.

May 27, 2020