Re: Need book about Word longdoc techniques
Michael said:
It is surprising that the 3rd party books don't have a chapter "dealing with
typical Word problems with longdocs". I'm new at this subject, but my Net
surfing this week reveals some standard techniques and tricks for using
longdocs -- things that I doubt are in the 3rd party Word books. What's
really needed is a Word book especially for longdocs, including:
o Bullets and numbering: using macro to define; avoiding dialog box
o Multifile page cross-refs
o Using master doc (always expect corruption; use backups) and referenced
doc field
o Conditional text techniques.
o Margin techniques.
o Linking to graphics rather than embedding them.
o Turn off Fast Save -- #1 file corruption cause.
Basically, how to force Word to behave more like FrameMaker, despite itself.
There are standard solutions, but they are not gathered together in one
place.
OOOOHHHHH!!!! Such a flame bait. You said it all, though. The third-party books for Word don't address long document problems. They seem to be oriented toward the casual or at least smaller document user. Like secretaries, sales people, etc.
The effort to document the work-arounds probably wouldn't have much payback.
I have experienced, and your milage may vary, that Word takes more keystrokes, and effort to do some of the more complex things that FrameMaker does. Tables, formatting, etc.
You can program using Notepad, too. But why would you want to?
Scott
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