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Re: Wanted: Any available doc comparing Word XP and FrameMaker 7.2

Subject: Re: Wanted: Any available doc comparing Word XP and FrameMaker 7.2
From: Paul Findon <pfindon -at- infopage -dot- net>
To: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:17:56 +0000

On 17 Mar 2006, at 16:28, Dan Goldstein wrote:

Conditional text and sideheads are easy to do in Word, even though
Word's own Help doesn't mention them. Variables are difficult for those
unfamiliar with VBA, but not impossible. Details follow below -- let me
know if you need more help with these!

Thanks, Dan and Johnathan.

At first glance, these look more like workarounds than Word features but I'll test them out when I get five mins. Geoff Lane mentioned using File > Properties > Custom and {DocProperty "ProductName"} for variables and this is pretty close to FrameMaker's user variables, although FM also allows you to specify the character format for a variable.

Paul



-- Dan Goldstein

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Conditional Text: There are multiple methods. My favorite is the
following:
1. Create a single Word document with styles for A, B, and C. Each of
the three letters has its own set of styles in the document: Body Text
A, Body Text B, etc.
2. Create three different templates: In Template 1, style B and C are
hidden text. In Template 2, style C is hidden. In Template 3, none of
the styles are hidden.
3. Conditional text is displayed according to the template that you link
to the document -- the document itself doesn't change.
Additional, equally reliable methods include:
* "includetext" fields to take content from different subdocs
* Database-controlled, macro-driven conditionals.
* The IF field, which tests for bookmark (variable) values.
* Steve Hudson's free markup tool (see TECHWR-L)
***************
Sideheads: Here are Geoff Lane's instructions:
1. Create your document with a wide left margin.
2. Create a style (Sidehead) with:
- the typographical specs you need
- a suitable negative left indent
- a tab stop that corresponds with the actual left margin.
3. Format your sidehead with the sidehead style.
4. If the sidehead is shorter than margin, add a tab to the sidehead,
otherwise add a space or tab (experiment with different whitespace to
get the effect you want).
5. Hide the paragraph mark at the end of the sidehead. To do this, click
the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar (the one that looks like a
paragraph mark), select the paragraph mark, then press Ctrl+Shift+H to
toggle the hidden text attribute on. When you hide non-printing
characters, the sidehead is on the same line as the running text.
***************
Variables: Go to the Word-PC archives at
<http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/word-pc.html>. Click the link to
March 2005. Scroll down to thread #47, "Variables."
***************

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Findon
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:54 AM
To: Dan Goldstein
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Wanted: Any available doc comparing Word XP and
FrameMaker 7.2

On 16 Mar 2006, at 14:05, Dan Goldstein wrote:

Hi Paul,

According to your chart, Word 2004 is sadly lacking in features
available in other versions of Word:

* Conditional text
* Sideheads
* Variables
* Hypertext TOC (and you can buy the index equivalent)

Thanks Dan.

I guess these features have different names in Windows Word because I
just checked the help in Word 2003 and couldn't find the first three.
Do you happen to know what they are in Word terminology?...


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