atw: Re: Replacing Word (Long...)
- From: "Lewington, Warren J" <warren.lewington.ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:59:11 +1000
Steve and I are good friends, I have to review that article again, and I have
not looked at the "Woody's" article. But Steve encouraged me to use them, and
anything Woody's writes should be highly reliable.
Reminds me that I have to contact Steve again.
Regards,
Warren
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Goldstein
Sent: Wednesday, 27 April 2011 11:53 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Replacing Word (Long...)
Warren, I'd be interested in your take on Steve Hudson's 2002 article on the
subject:
http://www.techwr-l.com/files/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20masterdocs.pdf
Steve was a strong advocate of the *careful* use of master docs.
Or for that matter, Office Watch's more recent "Master Documents without
pain":
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=1396&zoneid=8
-----Original Message-----
From: Lewington, Warren J
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:59 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Replacing Word (Long...)
Master/sub documents did work in 2000 and on, however, there were a few
unwritten conditions that MS never discussed in the help that I found out about
and worked with and around. I haven't had the need to test it out in Word 2007
and on. Sorry Christine - I can't help yet.
I don't believe the "rewrote the whole codebase" quote for a New York minute
either. They didn't need to rewrite it in the first place, the changes the
original system needed were negligible - code wide, but negligible. Make-up on
mutton completely changes the perception of taste, as does good curry powder.
Doesn't change the basic ingredients - which were in master/sub documents, good
to start with.
Creating master/sub documents was surprisingly easy if you followed the obvious
(once you knew) conventions that the developers had clearly used during the
planning process, but typically, never defined in the help.
Idiot scum bags for completely derailing a useful tool is all I can say about
that.
Yes, the process was fraught if you tried to do it without time to learn and
let things get broken a few times... Once you knew, it worked very well. I
repeated the process hundreds of times. And the time and stress it saved me,
and the company, working out how to do it was unbelievable.
But if you didn't follow those conventions; holy manure batman...
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