Re: One big word document or break apart

Subject: Re: One big word document or break apart
From: Mitchell Maltenfort <mmalten -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:13:55 -0400


My own experience with Word is that there's always a non-zero chance
of crashes, document corruption, etc.

So breaking it down into smaller sub-documents is a safety tactic.

I would think that once the individual sub-documents are revised, it
should be possible to recombine them into one large document and then
re-create the Table of Contents. A minor nuisance, but more tolerable
than having to deal with a crashed 300-page document.

My $0.01. I never over-value my own opinions.

On 6/29/05, Daniel Ng <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com> wrote:
>

> I have one single large word document.
> * Should I break up into smaller sub documents by application modules
> thus easier to assign work? But then I lose my integrated Table of
> Contents.
> * Should I remove all screenshots and for every dialog? What's your
> experience for printed documentation?
> * I keep the whole thing as one single large document as it is.
>
>
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One big word document or break apart: From: Daniel Ng

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