[austechwriter] Re: Can anyone help with some numbers?
- From: Janet Taylor <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:37:08 +1000
Jon,
Do you mean that we should leave some blank paragraphs after each heading?
Melanie,
Unfortunately, the document isn't mine and the problem is worse when we
cross reference to bookmarks because:
- some of the authors don't realise that there is a bookmark and include the
heading in that, or
- the bookmark is not put over any text, so there is no text to pull into
the launch site. (This method of inserting bookmarks is the author's
favourite and she's a much more experienced tech writer than me.)
Thanks for your advice though.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Glasson [mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 8 August 2003 9:03
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [austechwriter] Re: Can anyone help with some numbers?
Janet - this is not an indication that the file is corrupt. This behaviour
occurs if you edit a heading then press return and start entering text,
which of course it is allmost impossible to avoid doing. Try and get in the
habit of putting a few blank returns in after all headings, but it is
especially important to ensure they exist before including a heading in a
cross-ref.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: [austechwriter] Can anyone help with some numbers?
> I have a Word file created and running on Word 2000 that is:
> 3.16mg in size
> and has 782 cross references in it.
> The cross references frequently become corrupt (i.e. launch site gets not
> only the heading but lots of following paragraphs).
>
> I have said that the file has too many cross references. I've been asked
to
> find out how many cross references is too many. While I would rather
ignore
> the question, has anyone any idea if I can find this out?
>
> The document is 355 pages long, has long lots of tables, graphics and
fonts
> in it although they don't seem to cause any grief. Scant lip service has
> been paid to the use of Word's styles.
>
> I hasten to add that this file is not mine. It gets handed over for spell
> checking and editing every so often. The cross references go haywire on
the
> originator's PC as well as any other.
>
> I'd appreciate any help I can get to further my argument to break this
file
> down into smaller files.
>
> Oh, and by the way, I do lots of Maggies with it.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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