Word editing question

[neilson at windstream.net]

Also: Tell them not to bother trying to make anything
look pretty. I've known SMEs to complain to me that they
spent a lot of time trying to beautify something and it
still wasn't right, and of course I'm stuck trying to say
only, "Don't worry, it'll be just fine," when I'm thinking,
"You numbskull! I TOLD you to just give me the new text
and that I'd handle all the formatting."

Personally I prefer when they just send me a .txt file or
a bunch of source code or whatever, because then I'm not
receiving half a dozen copies of a bloated 2.5 MB Word doc
into my 10-MB-limit Outlook mailbox.

Oh, and if they DO insist on sending me the Word docs, I
want them with record-the-changes turned on, so that I can
tell who has done what to which parts, without having to
try doing half a dozen comparisons.

Frame for Linux! Let's have Frame for Linux! Frame for Linux
YESTERDAY!!!

Karen Murri wrote:
> Keep your cleaned up document as a master. Let them beat the heck out of
> the version you send out. When it comes back transfer the changes into your
> master manually or, for big sections of new text, using Paste
> Special/Unformatted Text.
> 
> I always keep a master than no one else can touch (if I have a choice).