RE: Time required for formatting Documents?

Subject: RE: Time required for formatting Documents?
From: John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:45:36 -0400


What type of application...Frame or Word?

For paragraph level formatting, I find Word faster...made friends with the
format paintbrush many years ago. If you weren't changing the text, that
seems like alot of time...shouldn't take more than a half-day.

If it was in Frame or you were doing character level formatting (attributes
to specific words), then the time seems reasonable.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: sclarke -at- nucleus -dot- com [mailto:sclarke -at- nucleus -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:28 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Time required for formatting Documents?



Hi Everyone

I just finished formatting a fairly complex standard operating procedure
which was 64 pages in length. We're using the military numbering system.
Another individual was the author. There are lots of headings,
sub-headings, had to lay in heading levels in order to make the TOC
automatically generate etc.

I believe it took me nearly 14 hours in total to format it. Does this seem
like a ridiculously long time to format it? I'm wondering if other tech
writers find formatting such a time consuming part of the job?


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