Document conventions for Office developer docs

Monospace

Indicates source code, code examples, input to the command line, application output, code lines embedded in text, and variables and code elements.

Public Class

Bold

Indicates most predefined programming elements, including namespaces, classes, delegates, objects, interfaces, methods, functions, macros, structures, constructors, properties, events, enumerations, fields, operators, statements, directives, data types, keywords, exceptions, non-HTML attributes, and configuration tags, as well as registry keys, subkeys, and values. Also indicates the following HTML elements: attributes (lower case), directives, keywords, values, and headers. In addition, indicates required user input (including command-line options) that must be entered exactly as shown. Lastly, indicates XML element names and XML attribute names (which are typed as written in the XSD).

Path class

Resolve method

href attribute

snippets element

keyword attribute

Italic

Indicates placeholders, most often method or function parameters and HTML placeholders; these placeholders represent information that must be supplied by the implementation or by the user. For command-line input, indicates parameter values.

context parameter

Capital letters

Indicates the names of keys and key sequences. Also indicates HTML element names.

ENTER

CTRL + R

HTML element

Plus sign

Indicates a combination of keys. For example, ALT+F1 means to hold down the ALT key while pressing the F1 key.

ALT+F1

Visio

Plain text, camel casing

Indicates cells and rows.

AlignMiddle cell

ArcTo row

Visio

Plain text, capital letters

Indicates functions

ANGLETOLOC function

Visio

Plain text, title caps

Indicates sections

Shape Layout section