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> From: Sierra Godfrey [mailto:kittenbreath -at- hotbot -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:35 AM
> Subject: (No Subject)
>
> A particularly gung-ho (and extremely irritating) marketing
> chick has asked me for a draft of my current manual so she
> can use the information for her data sheet on the product.
> Nevermind that this is a slimy way of getting out of doing
> her own research. I'm not getting in that with her.
While others have made the point that this *is* research of a kind, I'll
offer a different argument: you both work for the same company. If what
she's doing benefits the company and the ultimate release of the product,
who cares whether she's taking shortcuts? In some companies, they call
that "efficiency," because why should she duplicate your work?
As for the crashing problem, I'd suggest that you try exporting as other
formats that Word can read, such as RTF, WordPerfect, or even plain text,
if it's still readable after that. FrameMaker shouldn't be crashing on
export, but I've encountered that problem myself, so I know it's hard to
work around. Have you tried using the Clipboard instead of exporting?
