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I don't know about Visio, but during one of my stints at Microsoft, the project's PM hired some dingbat to do the indexes. This dude fuddled and fiddled through several months before they realized he wasn't what he advertised, and got rid of him. I happened to discover later that he put on his resume that he'd indexed all 7 manuals for that project. If they did their homework, they would have seen that only 2 of the 7 indeed had indexes....
"Leap and the net will appear"
--Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Burns [SMTP:bburns -at- qds-solutions -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:41 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: re: Indexing style refs
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> >> Sat what you will about MS...I have a hard time believing that they don't
> >> use professional indexers.
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> >Certainly not on every project.
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> Some Office XP applications (Visio) have NO index, from what I hear.
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