What are Requirements to User Manuals of Successful Applications?

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What are Requirements to User Manuals of
Successful Applications?
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Software development, software testing and
successful distribution of applications is
impossible without numerous documents.
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Unfortunately, not all software producers duly
prepare the documentation. There are programmers,
who think that working at the documents is a
waste of time, because nobody needs them.
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As a matter of fact, all the successful software
products have carefully written and well thought
out documentation.
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Though it is believed that if a product is
intuitive and clear, there is no need to read the
manual, well-written user manuals considerably
increase chances of a program to be successful.
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Manuals may be rarely utilized by the end-users,
but they are important for marketing purposes, as
customers usually judge about an application
based on its descriptions in the documents such
as user manuals.For example, Microsoft
Corporation always carefully prepares the user
manual for every version of their products, even
for well know ones.
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User Manuals Should

• give exhaustive information about the product,
  its functions and feature
• give clear and understandable instructions on how
  to use the product both for technical and
  nontechnical people
• be written in an expressive language
• demonstrate advantages of the product.

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Thank You for Your Attention
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