RE: FrameMaker and MS Word

Subject: RE: FrameMaker and MS Word
From: Simon Rumble <srumble -at- pilatmedia -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:59:43 -0000

> Word allows for Section Breaks, Page Breaks, and also has the
> AutoCorrect
> and AutoText Features. I see no mention of any of these in
> Framemaker. I'm
> assuming Framemaker doesn't have these. True?

Frame uses a different paradigm but, yes, you can do this.

More importantly, Frame lets you divide your document into "chapters" which
are seperate files, loaded into memory only when needed. The chapter
components of your book may be any size and their may be any number of them.
Unlike Word's Master Documents "feature", the chapters part of Frame
functionality is the whole point, not a tacked on, buggy,
corrupting-your-docs "feature".

It boils down to this: working on a document bigger than 100 pages? Word
isn't the tool for the job.

(I'll just get back to that 600 page document we're doing in Word and remind
myself why then, shall I? Waiting for a budget...)

> In Word its always best to Use Format - Styles rather than directly
> Formatting a Document. I'm assuming the same principle holds true for
> Framemaker?

Of course. And they work.

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