RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard C. Porrello
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:02 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?
> 
> To avoid autonumbering problems, I do not number 
> procedures...

Really? If you had problems building flow charts in Visio, would you
therefore not use flow charts?
 
> Another benefit of using a graphic instead of a 
> number is that I can reuse just segments of 
> procedures. Where you have a numbered procedure, 
> say steps 1-7, you can't pull out just steps 2, 
> 3, and 4 to use them as steps 4, 5, and 6 on 
> another page...

Yes, I can. SEQ fields do that just fine. So do ListNum fields. Our
Word-based servicing and manufacturing procedures often borrow pieces of
each other's numbered sequences, with no problem at all. Everything
renumbers as required, every time.






























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