In addition to a table of contents at the front of the book, each tab page contains a more detailed table of contents. Professionals don't have time to scan an entire chapter to find the desired topic, and it's inconvenient to flip back and forth to the table of contents in a two-inch manual. Home Depot, Inc. designed some of its product training materials to fit in aprons worn by associates on the floor. Additional reference materials, such as measurement guides and dictionaries, are included at the back of each book, explains Diane Linke, manager of training support services. Use color to accelerate learning.
Color is the ideal companion to all training materials, from overhead transparencies to handouts.
When we talk about color, we're also talking about cost. Judicious use of color can achieve all benefits at an affordable, incremental cost. Consider, for example, printing chapter headings in a color. To be understood, many graphics demand color. You can ask your printer to produce pages with full-color images or graphs on a color laser printer and collate those pages into the document before it's bound.