The Good Side of Word

[Kathleen MacDowell]

Word has some incredibly frustrating idiosyncracies. I've worked with enough
versions that I expect them and get one of the big work-around manuals
whenever there's a new version of Word that I must use.

There's no doubt that FrameMaker is the most stable of the two
word-processing programs. However, by comparison with FrameMaker, I really
like some of Word's real features, such as ability to see spaces, and some
of the flexibility in formatting.

Good luck to us all, with a new operating system on the horizon.

On 11/3/06, Sarah Bouchier <Sarah.Bouchier at exony.com> wrote:
>
> >But seriously; isn't it fun when your co-workers think you're amazing
> >for being able to make the page numbers of a document actually run in
> >order with no duplications or omissions?
>
> Oooh yes.  I got the undying admiration of several of the developers
> here after fixing a problem with their project requirements template
> that they'd spent days wrestling with.  They finally turned to their new
> technical author as a last resort.
>
> I listened to the symptoms, checked out the template, unchecked the
> 'Automatically Update' box on the Normal style, and checked it back in
> again.  Total time to fix: five minutes.
>
> S.
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> Sarah Bouchier
> Technical Author
>
> exony
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>
>
> --
> Kathleen MacDowell
> www.writefortheuser.com