RE: Suggestions for new tool option

["Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com>]

I enjoy reading Andrews posts. Usually, I agree with him. Indeed, the irony
and sarcasm in this post had me laughing pretty hard.

	 >It loathes linked images and it really hates GIF and JPG images. 

Hehehehe. Jolly joker. As if Word really cares about these things. And,
linking helps keep your application file small . . . speeding up Word. If
you didn't know Andrew's sense of humor, you might actually think he had no
idea about these things.

	>If you get images as JPGs, GIF, or any other format - convert them
to a true
	>color, compressible format. TIF is always good.  In general, JPG
and GIF are
	>meant for web sites and you should avoid these formats like a Pauly
Shore
	>movie. 

I love the Pauly Shore reference. It made me giggle. As if Andrew doesn't
know JPEG is a true color, compressible format. Hehehehehe. And, over TIFFs,
JPEG and GIF will save you a tonne of hard drive space . . . if you care
(memory is cheap). I can just imagine Andrew grinning his @## off as he
imagined people using TIFF to produce four-color or cross-platform output
from Word. Hehehehehe. TIFF, indeed <g>!

	>Build a bullet-proof template. 

This is riotous stuff. Especially considering the 9-months "farting around"
comment later. Hehehehe. I imagine, to round-out the joke, Andrew would post
instructions for creating the mythical bullet-proof Word template, just to
have people spend 9 months farting around to implement it. Jolly joker,
indeed. <vbg>

	>No linking graphics. All graphics should be placed in-line as
metafiles. The
	>easiest way to do this is to run ALL your graphics through Paint
Shop Pro (PSP)
	>6.0 or greater. Open them in PSP, copy the portion of the graphic
you want to
	>the clipboard, then paste the image (IN-LINE!!!) into the document.
Don't put
	>the images into frames or floating things. These just create
problems. 

With a smattering of truth, see how masterfully he pulls you in. Yes, the
floating graphics feature is crap. But, "no linking graphics" is priceless.
Yes, embed all those CMYK images. I can see Andrew rolling on the floor as
thousands of writers wait for their index to update because they have 9GB of
embedded graphics in their Word doc. Hehehehe.

	>I remember a client who had problems with Word so all the writers
went on a
	>crusade to get Frame. They got it and then spent 9 months farting
around
	>building templates and playing with the tool. All this time they
missed their
	>deliverables and released crap documents. They would have been a
lot better off
	>just staying with Word - but that would have meant actual work and
not "fun
	>work" of playing with templates. 

What a kidder! As if it's FrameMaker's fault a department spend 9 months
setting up templates and playing with the tool . . .. If we didn't know
Andrew's tool-neutral, get-the-work-done-now attitude, we'd almost suspect
him a Word bigot. What a joker! This guy is great. Because, heaven knows,
nobody using Word would ever spend too long farting around to build
bullet-proof templates and VBA customizations to get Word to jump through
the right hoops . . .. <ROTFLMAO>

	>FrameMaker, Quark, and PageMaker ALL blow up and GPF too. They just
have a
	>different set of problems. At the end of the day - its all the
same. 

Agreed. And, I love the way Andrew writes about not using Word's features,
master docs, headers and footers, graphics frames, and linking, in order to
be productive. Hehehehe. The only way this would have been more hilarious
was if Andrew actually suggested using Notepad, instead, or if he made his
list a 12-step process <g>.

Andrew! Thanks for making my morning, you big galoot. Now, in the words of
that jolly joker, GET BACK TO WORK, ME!

Cheers,

Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com



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