: Re: In end user documentation, should screenshots come before or after the text that references them? The end user documentation I'm writing makes use of screenshots (and partial screenshots) to show

1) Put the descriptive text first, then the screenshot immediately afterwards. We read down.

In the Print dialog box, click Export to PDF.
[SCREENSHOT of dialog box]

2) You may or may not need a caption, but you should at least label each screenshot. Fig. 1, Screen B, Ralph, something. That allows you to refer to it elsewhere in the text.

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