1. Portfolio of Examples
….effective, targeted documentation
Daniel Morton
The slide show is an example of the types of documents I’ve written.
I’m an expert at mining technical information
and translating that
into language that can be understood by the non-technical person.

2. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes the key features and product enhancements
available in the latest version of the software.
What’s New
Target Audiences: field technicians, TAMs, end users.

3. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide provides a technical overview of the software including
a feature overview, requirements, and configuration options.
Release Notes
Target Audiences: help desk, TAMs, field technicians, system administrators.

4. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes how to install and configure the
workstation, using either a typical or custom installation.
Software Installation and Configuration
Target Audiences: system administrators, IT personnel, end users.

5. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes how to install and configure the
workstation, using either a typical or custom installation.
The Workstation Made Easy
Target Audience: end users.

6. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide demonstrates the power of the workstation by
customizing applications using Visual Basic for Applications.
Working in Design Mode
Target Audiences: system administrators, IT personnel, end users.

7. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes how to use the various objects that the
workstation provides; Design worksheets that can be used for
financial applications by programming and linking objects.
Control Objects Designer
Target Audiences: sales staff, traders, brokers, portfolio managers.

8. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes how to works with VBA , global
projects, workspaces, and applets. Customize the interface, work
with Spreadsheet Objects, or import ActiveX Container Objects.
Customizing with VBA
Target Audiences: sales staff, traders, brokers, portfolio managers.

9. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes the initialization files associated with the
workstation, the different parameters and values found in each
file, and different options for configuring each value.
Initialization Files
Target Audiences: system administrators, IT personnel, developers.

10. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes how to manage the contents of the
Restricted List. The Restrict List enables a company to publish
and maintain an in-house log of trading recommendations on
securities of interest to them.
Restricted List Editor
Target Audiences: system administrators, IT personnel.

11. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes how to optimize workstation performance
and maximize bandwidth especially when tracking multiple large
indexes with multiple actively trading symbols.
Desktop Optimization
Target Audiences: system administrators, IT personnel, end users.

12. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes how to troubleshoot various performance
issues related to the BridgeFeed Server and the workstation.
Troubleshooting: Server and Desktop
Target Audiences: system administrators, IT personnel, end users.

13. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes how to configure the data layer plug-
ins, data layer contracts, and error logging parameters.
RDIFConfig Utility
Target Audiences: system administrators, IT personnel.

14. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide describes how to respond to the various message
windows that can pop up in the workstation. The messages are
divided into two categories, General Workstation Messages and
Control-Specific Messages. All are arranged alphabetically by
feature or control.
Workstation Message Windows
Target Audiences: system administrators, IT personnel, end users.

15. Reuters Station/Trader
RST 8.2.5
This guide contains a summary of the High and Critical severity
known issues tagged in the Deficiency Management Plan (DMP)
for correction in future versions of the software.
Known Workstation Issues
Target Audience: Internal Audiences Only.

16. Thomson Reuters Eikon
1.0 and 2.0
This is a Compiled Help File authored in RoboHelp that provides
detailed instruction on converting Reuters Station 8.x files into
corresponding Thomson Reuters Eikon files.
Station2Eikon Help
Target Audience: clients migrating from RST to Thomson Reuters Eikon.

17. Thomson Reuters Eikon
1.0 and 2.0
This is an on-line Help File authored in FrameMaker that provides
detailed instruction on configuring and using the Blended Order
Book object.
Getting Started - Blended Order Book
Target Audience: end user.

18. The Central System
Issues: 1-18
This is a series of executive summaries. Each issues covers a
difference aspect of the core technology center. Each issue distils
the topic into a concise, double-sided sheet of paper containing
at least one illustration, but no more than two.
Point-to-Point
Target Audience: new hires, those requiring knowledge of the delivery system.

19. Thanks for watching….
Daniel Morton
TopTechWriter - It's not just my LinkedIn URL.
I've got the work history and hard copy
binders full of colorful examples to prove it.
I know what I’m doing. I know how to do it. And I do it very well.