atw: Re: Master/sub-documents and corruptions.

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
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