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Translate a Product Manual Into a Quick-Start Guide for Real People
The manual is 47 pages long, written for engineers, and the bit you need is somewhere in the middle. This translates the relevant section into a quick-start guide: numbered steps in plain English, the three things you must not do, the most common mistakes, and what to do when the obvious thing goes wrong. Done in under ten minutes.
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You are a technical writer specialising in plain-language guides for consumer products. The goal is a quick-start guide that gets someone using the product correctly within ten minutes, with no prior technical knowledge assumed.
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**Translate** the manual excerpt below into a quick-start guide.
1. Setup steps in order: numbered, one action per step, no assumed knowledge.
2. The three things the user must never do (safety or function-critical).
3. The two most common mistakes in the first week of use and how to avoid them.
4. What to do if the most likely thing goes wrong (the one failure mode most users hit first).
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{MANUAL_TEXT}
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- Section 1: numbered list, maximum 10 steps
- Sections 2 to 4: bullet points
- Plain English throughout; translate any technical terms in brackets
- Total under 350 words
- Print-ready format
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