Write a manual

Open the document and select Write. If a revision is already in force, select Open the next revision first — it starts as a copy of the one in force.

The outline

The left of the page is the Outline. To add a section:

1. Type its Title — for example Organisation and responsibilities.

2. Choose where it goes under Inside — At the top level, or inside another section.

3. Choose its Kind, then select Add.

Kind	How it is numbered
Body	1, 1.1, 1.1.1 — from where it sits.
Appendix	Letters itself — A, B — and numbers inside itself.
Unnumbered	A foreword or preamble.

Use Move this section to reorder; numbers follow. Leave Number empty to number a section from where it sits.

Generated pages

Add a generated page places a page Wingcert writes for you — the list of effective pages, contents, record of revisions, highlights of change, the distribution list and others. Wingcert writes this one: you choose where it sits, and nobody types into it.

Writing a section

Select a section to open the editor. The toolbar has bold, italic, highlight, lists, tables, and boxed Note and Caution callouts. Start on a new page forces a page break before it in the PDF.

Cross-references

Use Insert a cross-reference rather than typing “see 4.2”. You pick the target section, and its number is worked out every time the manual is read or printed — so moving a chapter can never leave a reference pointing at the wrong place. If the target is deleted, the reference says so.

Regulation references

Under Paragraphs this section addresses, pick the paragraphs the section satisfies from the regulation library. They are printed under the heading — for example [Ref: 145.A.70(a)(1); AMC1 145.A.70(a)(1);] — and resolved every time, so an amendment cannot make them stale.

Picking them is also what lets your compliance cross-reference show which paragraphs nothing addresses.

Two people editing

If somebody else saved the same section while you were writing, Wingcert says Somebody else saved this section while you were writing rather than overwriting their work. Compare the two before saving again.

When the revision is ready, submit it for approval.