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Subject:Re: Quark & Frame vs. Word From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:12:25 -0500
> > My second question: do most of you use Word revision control on
> > documents when editing?
>
> Noooo! Revision control on long documents makes bad things happen, like
> crashing Word and fouling up the document.
>
> It also encourages clients, internal and external, to query every change
you
> make to their precious words.
>
> Suggest you get your client to mark up hardcopy.
>
> Revision control bad.
Been there, done that. Revision control and hardcopy markup are both bad.
Now if somebody has something to say about my documents, I require them to
have an actual conversation with me about it.
That tends to eliminate insightful comments like "??" or "See Greg."
