Re: Is Word Formatting in End-User docs important?

Subject: Re: Is Word Formatting in End-User docs important?
From: Dan Emory <danemory -at- primenet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:41:13 -0800

At 10:06 AM 11/30/00 -0700, Christensen, Kent wrote:

Receiving digests of this list, my mind boggles at the number of posts on
this subject, and I must admit to having not read every word. I'd like to
add my bit, anyway ...

WORD is not a tool for electronic transfer of information to end users.
Period.
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Good grief!! who has suggested that Word documents be delivered
to end users? It would be nice, however, if you could reliably print
long documents out of Word to paper or PDF, but of course, that
would be asking too much wouldn't it.

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