Errata

Microsoft Manual of Style

Errata for Microsoft Manual of Style

The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.

The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.

Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
PDF Page iii
Table of Contents

All ToC entries link to the cover page. The Usage Dictionary works fine as expected.

 Xavier Roy  Feb 15, 2012 
PDF Page iii - v
TOC entries

When I click on the TOC hyperlinks, the Cover Page is displayed instead of the corresponding section.

 Shankar Revadala  Feb 20, 2012 
Other Digital Version All
All

The Kindle Version, everything is left justified with Times New Roman font. Other immediate problems noted include paragraph indents are missing (compared to PDF version), formatting on Notes strange, and space between paragraphs are all the same.

Is there a stylesheet problem, or is the Kindle unable to handle what most HTML browsers can handle.

Robert Chapman  Mar 08, 2012 
Printed, PDF, Other Digital Version Page xxiv
3rd paragraph under heading "Errata and Book Support"

Your definition of "email" on page 286 states that you should not use "email" as a verb.

Example:
"email
Do not use as a verb. Use send instead."

However, you use it as a verb in your guide on page xxiv.

Example:
"If you need additional support, email Microsoft Press Book Support at
mspinput@microsoft.com."

 Anonymous  Mar 06, 2013 
PDF Page 13
1st bullet

According to MS Manual of Style (preface): Italic is used to call attention to words or phrases used as words rather than as functional part of a sentence (p. xxi).
Therefore, formatting of the bullet on p. 13 should be changed.
Do not use the generic masculine pronoun (he, his, him, himself) unless you have no other
choice. Use <i>the</i> instead of <i>his</i>, or rewrite material in the second person (you) or in the plural.
If necessary, use a plural pronoun such as <i>they</i> or <i>their</i> with an indefinite singular antecedent,
such as <i>everyone</i>, or with multiple antecedents of different or unknown genders, such as Pat
and Chris. Use <i>his or her</i> for the singular, possessive case if you can do so infrequently and
only if nothing else works.

 Anonymous  Jun 06, 2013 
PDF Page 41
International currency paragraph

Missing period in the sentence starting 'Examples are the U.S dollar'. There should be a period after the S of U.S.

 Paul McConkey  Feb 15, 2013 
Printed Page 96
Table: first column, first entry below header row

Interface element reads "Butt/on names." Presumably this should should be "Button names."

 Johanna Schaeffer  Sep 19, 2013 
Printed Page 138
Last bulleted list

The first example listed under the heading "Not Microsoft style on first mention in a list or table" ("Microsoft Word 2010") is exactly the same as the first example listed as "Microsoft style on first mention in a list or table."

To eliminate the possibility of confusion for the reader, remove the word "Microsoft" from the first example listed under heading "Not Microsoft style on first mention in a list or table" so that the example is, in fact, not in Microsoft style.

Johanna Schaeffer  Jan 21, 2014 
Printed Page 148
last listed "Not Microsoft style" example, near bottom

The following "Microsoft style" example is erroneously repeated as the "Not Microsoft style" example:

For more information about modifying Visual Basic source code and installing Visual Basic forms, see Extending Forms.

 Derek Rogerson  Mar 13, 2013 
Printed Page 148
last listed "Not Microsoft style" example, near bottom of page

The correct "Microsoft style" example is erroneously indented as additional instructional text.

The indented text that should not be indented is the following:

For more information about modifying Visual Basic source code and installing Visual Basic forms, click here.

 Derek Rogerson  Mar 13, 2013 
Other Digital Version 153
6th paragraph, 2nd sentence (Location 7558 in Kindle file)

In the Amazon Kindle version an "x" replaced the multiplication sign:

For those, use the multiplication sign x (in HTML, &#0215;).

It should be as it is in the PDF version:

For those, use the multiplication sign ? (in HTML, &#0215;).

 Robert Chapman  Mar 08, 2012 
Printed Page 426
Header

Index page header reads "everygreen approach to content;" first listed index entry on this page is "evergreen approach to content."

 Johanna Schaeffer  Aug 22, 2013 
PDF Page 434
2nd column of Punctuation

Page 263 - Description of "check mark" is that it is two words.

Page 434 - "remove the checkmark, 59" shows check mark as one word.

 Anonymous  Mar 19, 2013