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Are you familiar with Word templates? I think that most professional
tech writers who work in Word create their own templates and avoid using
normal.dot.
The irony of your comments is that many of us work in Word precisely so
we *can* share files with our colleagues in a format that they're
familiar with. If I were a "lone writer" (whatever that is), I would
probably work in Frame. But as long as I work in Word, I have nothing to
do with normal.dot.
-- Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nuckols, Kenneth M
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 1:38 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Adobe Acrobat 6.0 VS WORD 2003
>
> ... Until Microsoft banishes that hideous
> "normal.dot" back to whatever unholy plane of the nine hells
> it came from, then the only type of TW who had ever better
> CONSIDER using Word is one who is a lone writer that never
> has to share any electronic documentation with SMEs,
> managers, colleagues outside the company, or anyone else
> within a five hundred yard radius of another copy of MS Word
> of any version or any flavor...
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