Quark & Frame vs. Word

[Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>]

The old dilemma is on my back. I have a client who wants to do fancy 
schmanzy stuff in Word with large docs. Word is incapable of doing 
(perhaps I exaggerate, but you know what I mean) these fancy things and 
causes many problems, in addition to consistently crashing.

I can use Quark 5.0 or Frame 6.0, which are the programs I have, but I 
need to be able to have a way to carry messages between documents (like 
the revision control function or comments in Word.) Ideally I'd like to 
not recreate the wheel---there is a gorgeous layout that could use some 
tweaking with additional master pages in Quark. I hate to have to 
recreate in Frame, but I can't find the above mentioned functionality in 
Quark or Frame.

Any ideas?

My second question: do most of you use Word revision control on 
documents when editing? I heavily rewrite my clients work (most of them 
anyway) and asked a girlfriend last night if she would want to proof my 
changes and any highlighted areas with Word revision command and she 
said, "I don't know how to use that, but I could get a hard copy 
document from you today and return it on Tuesday." Obviously THAT 
doesn't help me. I certainly can't bill my client for hashing through 
hard copy proofreaders marks. Perhaps this is why she hasn't had a 
client in 2 years. I don't know. Maybe I am the anomaly. Like that would 
be a first!

Help me! Michele

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Michele

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