atw: Re: compiling reports
- From: Suzy <suzy.davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:31:53 -0500 (CDT)
Hi Sus
Your problem sounds similar to the issues facing people who work
with tenders and RFP - a lot of people all contributing to a
single document or group of documents.
If it is, my system was been developed to take the pain out of the
process by providing a consistent work environment:
- same template base and style architecture for all documents
- encourage the use of Paste Unformatted instead of Paste when
bringing in content from other document or application sources
(like web pages). As soon as you copy/paste content from another
Word document with a different style architecture you will change
your base style architecture.
I find that just by introducing these two components you can cut
hours from your finalisation time.
Happy to chat if you want to bounce some ideas around.
regards Suzy
www.appsforoffice.com
On Wed Jul 27 21:40:26 CDT 2011, Susan Hunter <sushu20@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I compile a lot of reports at work (some are monthly ~25 pages
> and others
> are not on a regular basis and are around ~500 - 1000 pages -
> excluding
> appendices).
>
> I need to get input from various team members and they all use
> word
> (non-negotiable).
>
> For the smaller documents I compile everyone's input into one
> document, for
> the larger documents I keep each chapter as a standalone document
> due to
> managing revision updates and time constraints.
>
> Word drives me nuts, so I was wondering if anyone could recommend
> a program
> for me to use for compiling the final documents and managing
> formatting.
>
> The documents are for internal use only so they don't have
> complicated
> styling; they do have lots of graphs, tables and images.
>
> Your thoughts would be most appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Sus
>
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