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Autodesk Editorial Style Guide
  • About this guide
  • Usage and style
    • Overview
    • Abbreviations
    • Academic degrees
    • Acronyms
    • Active vs. passive voice
    • Alt text
    • Awards
    • Browser titles
    • Bulleted lists
    • Buzzwords
    • Calls to action (CTAs)
    • Capitalization
    • Captions
    • Closed captions, open captions, subtitles
    • Collective nouns
    • Command, menu, and UI names
    • Company names
    • Department names
    • Email addresses
    • Email subject lines
    • Feature names
    • File names and extensions
    • First and second person
    • Footnotes
    • Forms
    • Free and discounted software
    • Headings and subheads
    • Image and photo credits
    • Industry names
    • Insensitive language
    • Italics
    • Legal alerts
    • Links
    • Localization considerations
    • Meta descriptions
    • Names of people
    • Notes and tips
    • Noun strings
    • Numerals
    • Product names
    • Project names
    • Promotions
    • Pull quotes
    • Racially inclusive terminology
    • Spelling
    • State names
    • Subtitles
    • Titles
    • Trademarks
    • Using (s) for optional plural
    • Version and extension numbers
    • Video times
  • Punctuation and grammar
    • Overview
    • Ampersand
    • Apostrophes
    • Contractions
    • Colons
    • Commas
    • Ellipsis
    • Em dashes
    • Ending punctuation (period, exclamation point, question mark)
    • Exclamation points
    • Hyphenation
    • Italics
    • Possessives
    • Quotation marks
    • Semicolons
    • Slash
  • Word list
    • Overview
    • 0-9
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • J
    • K
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O
    • P
    • R
    • S
    • T
    • U
    • V
    • W
    • X
    • Z
  • Numbers
    • Overview
    • Abbreviating “number”
    • Dates
    • Degrees
    • Figure and table captions
    • Fractions
    • Measurements
    • Numerals
    • Percent, percent symbol
    • Phone numbers
    • Prices
    • Time
  • Product names and branded terms
    • Overview
    • Industry collections
    • Product names
    • Product name abbreviations
    • Product names that legally require Autodesk
    • Product noun phrases
    • Program names
    • Third-party product names
    • Autodesk logos and product icons
    • DWG
  • Trademarks
    • Overview
    • Trademarks
    • Third-party products or names
    • Resources
  • Voice and tone
  • Using generative AI
  • Global writing
    • Overview
    • Style
    • Think globally
    • References
  • Autodesk Brand Hub
  • In-product help
    • Overview
    • Writing help content
    • Topic types and scope
    • Topic scannability
    • Task topic boilerplates
    • Umbrella task topic boilerplate
    • Reference topic boilerplate
    • Concept boilerplate
    • Art
    • Boldface
    • Buttons
    • Callouts
    • Capitalization
    • Captions
    • Click and drag
    • Colons
    • Commands
    • Conditional text
    • Demos
    • Dialogs
    • Ellipsis
    • Figures
    • Files, filenames, and filename extensions
    • Headings and subheads
    • Icons
    • Illustrations
    • Italics
    • Keyboard sequences and keys
    • Links
    • Lists
    • Movies
    • Notes and tips
    • Numerals
    • Operating systems
    • Parentheses
    • Paths
    • Platforms
    • Product names
    • Quotation marks
    • Scannability
    • Scope of topics
    • Screenshots and illustrations
    • Search optimization
    • Short descriptions
    • Start versus launch
    • Tables
    • Tips
    • Titles
    • UI elements
    • Versions and releases
    • Videos and screen motion captures
    • Workflows
  • In-product messages
    • Overview
    • In-product messages
    • General messages
    • Notifications
    • Confirmations
    • Warnings
    • Errors
    • Buttons
    • Desktop cloud message repository
  • In-product release notes
  • References

Voice and Tone

For Autodesk voice and tone guidance, please refer to the Voice system section on the Brand Hub.