Re: Need recommendations for MS Word reference

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There is also the Word-PC list at the University of Liverpool.
word-pc -at- liverpool -dot- ac -dot- uk

I have received some useful advice from the members of that list.

Good luck!

Pat


On 5/21/07, Pinkham, Jim <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Excellent! Also, www.editorium.com.
>
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>
> And for quick access, these Word online sites, these sites have saved my
> sanity many a time:
>
> http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/index.html
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA101154421033.aspx
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/word-ms/ (a yahoo group)
> http://www.syntagma.demon.co.uk/WordArticles.htm
> http://word.mvps.org/index.html
>
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> Subject: RE: Need recommendations for MS Word reference
>
> For my money, the best bet would be Woody Leonhard's book,
> http://www.amazon.com/Special-Using-Microsoft-Office-2003/dp/0789729555.
> The companion Word-only book by Bill Camarda would make a nice bundle
> and get you in very good shape for about $50. The WOPR CD offers some
> useful utilities for making Word do some of the things MS should have
> thought of in the first place. This set is for Office 2003, a pretty
> credible bet, but Woody's office books go back to at least Word 97, if
> that's what you need.
>
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> Behalf Of Julie Stickler
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> Subject: Need recommendations for MS Word reference
>
> Cross posted
>
> Up until now I've been working in FrameMaker and RoboHelp.  But I've
> just accepted a position as sole TW for a small company.  None of the
> people that I interviewed with were able to give me much information
> about what the previous TW had done with their documentation.  So I
> don't know what tools were used, but I strongly suspect that he was
> using Microsoft Word (version unknown).
>
> My first order of business will be looking at the current doc sets and
> determining future needs, and what tools will best meet those needs.
> (And I'm not assuming that I'll convert to FM and RH, I might go with
> something like AuthorIT).  But in the meantime, I may need to update
> existing documentation using whatever tools were used to create them.
> And I am *not* a power Word user.
>
> While I've learned a lot from reading various TW lists over the past
> couple of years, I'd still feel better with a good Word reference book
> on my desk.   Searching the keywords "Microsoft Word" got me almost
> 2,000 hits on BarnesandNoble.com, and over 11,000 hits on Amazon.  So
> I'll ask you folks, can you recommend a good book/series/publisher to
> learn the more advanced features of Word that are useful to a TW?  I'm
> thinking of something that would cover topics like creating templates,
> writing macros, and using the (buggy) master document features.  My
> bible for Frame has been FrameMaker 7: The Complete Reference by O'Keefe
> and Loring.  Does anyone know of a similar general reference for
> Microsoft Word?
>
> Many thanks for your help!
> Julie Stickler
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