Microsoft® Manual of Style, 4th Edition - O'Reilly Media

1. Chapter 1 Microsoft style and voice

   1. Principles of Microsoft style
   2. Bias-free communication
   3. Anthropomorphism
   4. Parallelism

2. Chapter 2 Content for the web

   1. Make the right content choices
   2. Text for the web
   3. Video content for the web
   4. Blogs
   5. Community-provided content
   6. Evaluate your content
   7. Help users find your content
   8. International considerations for web content
   9. Accessibility considerations for web content
   10. Legal considerations for web content

3. Chapter 3 Content for a worldwide audience

   1. Global English syntax
   2. Machine translation syntax
   3. Terminology and word choice
   4. Technical terms
   5. Jargon
   6. Latin and other non-English words
   7. Global art
   8. Examples and scenarios
   9. International currency
   10. Time and place
   11. Names and contact information
   12. Fonts
   13. Web, software, and HTML issues
   14. Legal issues with worldwide content
   15. Additional globalization resources

4. Chapter 4 Accessible content

   1. Accessibility guidelines and requirements
   2. Accessible webpages
   3. Accessible writing
   4. Accessible graphics and design
   5. Acceptable terminology

5. Chapter 5 The user interface

   1. Windows user interface
   2. Windows Phone user interface
   3. User interface elements
   4. Ribbons, menus, and toolbars
   5. Webpage controls, dialog boxes, and property sheets
   6. Backstage view
   7. Control Panel
   8. Messages
   9. Other user interface elements
   10. Modes of interaction
   11. Mouse terminology
   12. Key names
   13. Content for multiple platforms
   14. User interface text
   15. User interface formatting

6. Chapter 6 Procedures and technical content

   1. Procedures
   2. Document conventions
   3. Cloud computing style
   4. Reference documentation
   5. Code examples
   6. Security
   7. Command syntax
   8. File names and extensions
   9. Version identifiers
   10. General guidelines
   11. Out-of-band release terminology
   12. Protocols
   13. XML tag, element, and attribute formatting
   14. HTML tag, element, and attribute formatting
   15. Readme files and release notes

7. Chapter 7 Practical issues of style

   1. Capitalization
   2. Titles and headings
   3. Microsoft in product and service names
   4. Lists
   5. Tables
   6. Cross-references
   7. Notes and tips
   8. Numbers
   9. Dates
   10. Phone numbers
   11. Time zones
   12. Measurements and units of measure
   13. URLs, addresses
   14. Names of special characters
   15. Art, captions, and callouts
   16. Bibliographies and citations
   17. Page layout

8. Chapter 8 Grammar

   1. Verbs and verb forms
   2. Agreement
   3. Voice
   4. Mood
   5. Nouns
   6. Words ending in -ing
   7. Prepositions
   8. Prefixes
   9. Dangling and misplaced modifiers

9. Chapter 9 Punctuation

   1. Periods
   2. Commas
   3. Apostrophes
   4. Colons
   5. Semicolons
   6. Quotation marks
   7. Parentheses
   8. Hyphens, hyphenation
   9. Dashes
   10. Ellipses
   11. Slash mark
   12. Formatting punctuation

10. Chapter 10 Indexes and keywords

    1. Indexes
    2. Keywords and online index entries

11. Chapter 11 Acronyms and Other Abbreviations

    1. How to use acronyms and other abbreviations
    2. Table of acronyms and other abbreviations
    3. How to use abbreviations of measurements
    4. Table of abbreviations of measurements
    5. Process for adopting new acronyms or abbreviations