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Brandon Chatel

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Brandon Chatel

Worked on MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs, focusing on documentation updates related to the retirement of the Actions feature in Office 2024 and later. Developed and maintained Markdown-based user guidance, including a new retirement notice and updates to overview and how-to guides for Word and Excel. Improved documentation consistency by cross-linking related topics and clarifying supported Office versions, ensuring users received accurate lifecycle information. Enhanced code sample readability by correcting formatting issues with code block separators. Collaborated with product documentation teams to align content with product deprecation timelines, reducing user confusion and support queries through clear, version-specific instructions and thorough documentation practices.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

100%Features

Repository Contributions

10Total
Bugs
0
Commits
10
Features
2
Lines of code
111
Activity Months2

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4818 people

Work History

April 2025

6 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary for MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs focusing on Actions Pane documentation retirement updates and quality improvements. Delivered consolidated retirement guidance for Actions Pane in Word across Office 2024+ versions, clarified supported Office versions, refreshed how-to guides for adding Actions Pane to Word and Excel documents, and improved code sample rendering by adding missing code block separators. Also updated related task-pane guidance to reflect retirement. These changes align with product deprecation timelines and reduce support queries by providing clear, version-specific instructions.

March 2025

4 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025: Focused documentation work for MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs. Delivered a user-facing Actions retirement notice for Office 2024, with a new actions-retirement-md.md, improved consistency across related overview/docs, and updates to the Actions-related docs. This enhances customer guidance during product lifecycle and reduces confusion by aligning documentation with product changes. Key learnings/skills: content authoring in Markdown, documentation cross-linking, lifecycle communication, and collaboration with product docs teams.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness100.0%
Maintainability100.0%
Architecture100.0%
Performance100.0%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

Markdown

Technical Skills

Documentation

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs

Mar 2025 Apr 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

Markdown

Technical Skills

Documentation