atw: Re: Master/sub-documents and corruptions.
- From: Peter Martin <peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:34:08 +1000
Lewington, Warren J (WT):
You wrote:
> Oh, lets all face it, MS Word is at times woefully inadequate and requires
> all these un-
> written, undocumented "rules" to work. The ten caveats I suggest were
> probably in the
> minds of the developers when they were piecing the master/sub-document
> architecture and
> code together - because boy, when you use them the whole shebang works really
> well. I
> strongly suspect it was just never documented within MS Word in the first
> place - I
> mean if they had spent the time with that documentation like the Fields help
> they would
> go through the ten caveats. Also consider the misunderstandings about Styles
> and
> Formatting in general.
>
> Yeah, look the process does seem complicated, but, at the end of the day, the
> ten
> caveats that I provide there are pretty basic stuff. And the 10 items are
> functions
> that we all use, to varying degrees loosely and tightly, whenever we are
> working in
> Word.
>
> My main point is to be rigorous when using master/sub-documents. And
> ABSOLUTELY!
> These are not for the faint hearted, or the person trying to get something
> done
> quickly. It takes planning and some cooperative organisation. The more people
> involved,
> the more planning and cooperation.
>
Yeah. Except in the Real World, as a professional, you get people insisting
that their documentation uses the template they supply and insist on.
Then where are the ten rules ? And why weren't they in the documentation I
read when I tried using master doc?
I'm with Bill Gates, who when asked about this, said that Word wasn't meant to
be a desktop publishing tool.
And for those who've had trouble with structured FrameMaker, let's hear it for
Word's XML ????
-PeterM
peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. - Chinese Proverb
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