• A$320

• 10 designs

• 3 designers

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Print Design Brief

We need an instruction manual design that will be used as a template for all user manuals for our range of consumer machinery.

Our product range includes Chainsaws and Jackhammers for example.


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Essential:
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A staff member with only *Basic* Microsoft Word skills must be able to paste the required content from external sources in to the template to produce a professional manual.

The document should use the minimum amount of automated features.

Our staff need to produce manuals without hours of struggling with MS Word's "automated" features such as auto-bullets, auto-numbering, auto-indentation etc.



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The Design Should:
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- Be a Microsoft Word document, produced with Office 2013 or Office 365.

- Be suitable for production of printed manuals and online PDF manuals.

- Include the following sections:
1) Cover Page.
2) Approx 120 words of "warning text" (may be on cover or separate page).
3) Table Of Contents.
4) Body.
5) Specifications section featuring 3-10 different versions of the machine, each including a photo and listing approx 13 specifications.

- Include page numbers.

- Be in "Single Column Format" for easy editing by staff with minimal MS Word experience. "Special Pages", such as the cover and table of contents may be multi-column if necessary.

- Be an A4 document.

- Be readable when printed in Black and White, even if elements of the design include colour.

- Feature a warning icon/graphic that is easy to paste/insert next to important text.

- Feature the following levels of text, to be entered into MS Word's "Styles" function:
1) Main Headings.
2) Sub Headings.
3) Body Text.

- Feature headings that are "text", so they can be edited within MS Word without resorting to graphic editing software etc.

- Not rely on MS Word's painful "automated" features like auto-bullets, auto-numbering, auto-indentation etc (with the exception of page numbers, headings and auto-generated table of contents)



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How Our Staff Will Use It:
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Staff will have a basic understanding of MS Word.

Our staff will paste text, photographs, diagrams and vector drawings into the template.



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Extra Credit Given For:
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- Automatically generated table of contents, based on the headings within the document.



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Finished Template:
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- Should be in MS Word (MS Office 2013 or MS Office 365) format.

- Should include generic text / photos / diagrams to show what a manual looks like when generated from your template.

Industry/Entity Type

Software

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