Well, Jill (N) In all of my recent templates that I have developed for various customers, my Glossary sections have gone something like this. 10 Glossary This section defines the task and industry specific terms and abbreviations used in this document. Where all such terms and abbreviations in this document are expected to be common knowledge among the members of its defined Intended Audience, the following tables may be left blank. (The latter sentence, which is just an instruction for the future author / template user, can be in a hidden text style so that it does not display in the published, finished document.) Then I usually have a Words & Terms table, followed by an Abbreviations table. I also call the "heading 1" styles in the section header with a {styleref "heading 1" \* MERGEFORMAT} field. Sometimes I even include a Glossary of the application icons in a table, with the icon in the left hand column and the description, purpose, function, and an example of what it does in the right hand columns. Where this approach becomes too page consuming for comfort, I separate this glossary of application icons to a separate appendix. How does that approach sound? Regards, Michael Granat Write Ideas At 12:05 24/2/2005, you wrote: >How many people do not put a header on a glossary? >I have tried many terms for the abbreviations/objects/whatevers and the >explanation/description/whatever and find none of these words fit comfortably. >I like to do a no-header glossary as it is really quite obvious what is >going on, but the client always seems to want some type of header. >I know it depends on the content - this time I am talking an IT service >system. >Jill Nicholson >N&H Communications >2 Park Ave >ROSEVILLE, NSW 2069 >61+2+94174302 >jpnicho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >www.nhcommunications.com.au Michael E. Granat Qualified Good Tech Writer Dude Fellowship Of The Ring Of Tech Writers, Yeah Baby! T/as Write Ideas E-mail: mailto:writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/> Without Prejudice. E&OE. ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************