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Subject:Re: Microsoft Documentation From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:28:48 -0500
John Posada wrote:
> Case in point...the day before I was to "go to press", I
> received a file from my CIO where he made changes and
> suggestions in the file... headers and footers in the master version
> were trashed. Some header sections gone, some footer
> sections where the margins had shifted 3 inches to the left.
Do you think you would have had a better time of it if you sent your CIO a
FrameMaker file instead of Word? My guess is that he would have discovered
a way to mess up your FM layout, too.
