Technical writers often work for multiple teams and sometimes, they document totally different products or components. When your Jira backlog is full of tasks and you don’t even know where to start, you might start to feel completely lost and overloaded. Especially if you start a task and it seems that everything is against you: the software doesn’t work as expected, the task is poorly described in Jira, or you simply don’t know how to use a new feature that you have to describe. Seems like a nightmare, but here are some quick tips you can try to solve this problem. I hope you’ll find some of ..read more

I’m an Excel maniac. It’s even possible to say that almost everything I do I want to do in Excel.  This might raise a question: as a technical writer, what can I use Excel for? Surely, I’m not using Excel when writing articles and manuals, aren’t I?  This might be a common misconception, especially driven by the word “writer” in the name of my job position. “Writer” brings to our minds a dreamy image of a person licking the end of a pen and pondering over each word…  In this article, I’ll try to show you some of the uses of Excel that really bring my work up to speed and make li ..read more