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Re: Revisiting Frame vs. Word in light of new capabilities
Subject:Re: Revisiting Frame vs. Word in light of new capabilities From:"T.W. Smith" <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:10:04 -0500
Been there, done that, wrote the book -- in Word -- sent it to press,
got the proof plus the developer email from Microsoft. <g>
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:44:33 -0000, Jonathan West <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > I believe an expert user of Word can make it work, if you get away
> > from built-in numbering, add macros to stabilize the use of styles,
> > divorce the document as much as possible from Normal.dot, etc.
>
> It doesn't take an expert user to create a non-normal.dot template and
> properly populate it with styles. Macros are not necessary for the purpose.
> I accept that the built-in numbering is a mess and that it requires a good
> deal of care.
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T.
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