MS Word Question -- about templates

Dori Green dgreen at associatedbrands.com
Mon Jan 8 06:21:02 MST 2007


I've worked in many places where an attempt has been made to teach proper
formatting to everybody who prepares input.

This plan has never worked successfully.  Management has always, eventually,
come around to my early suggestion to hire a temporary *editor* to check
inputs and format as needed.

A good "font fondler" usually knows the basics of good grammar, and the pay
rate is not that far above the rate for a good typist.

The same scenario has played out whether the final output was nroff, word
perfect, word, html, or frame.  Teams have usually been high-level
development systems analysts and/or engineers with otherwise
good-to-excellent writing abilities.

My 2c

Dori Green

PS - be careful how you make the suggestion.  More than once I've been stuck
with the job.




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