RE: Flashpoint of the week: editors and writers egos? (Take II)

["Cook, John" <John -dot- Cook -at- camtronics -dot- com>]

.  First, if you're using Word (presumably other software too), 
.  the choice 
.  of how to display the edits (color, format, etc.) can be set 
.  independently by each user. If you like fluorescent pink 
.  edits, you can 
.  probably coerce your software into showing you edits in this manner.
.  
.  Second, you can (in Word) toggle quickly between concealing and 
.  displaying the tracked changes. This lets you (respectively) 
.  see only 
.  the results of the edits and how you got to those results. Sometimes 
.  authors are much happier just seeing the results, without having to 
.  wade through all the red (or chartreuse or whatever) ink. 
.  That's doubly 
.  true if they can reveal the edits only when something looks wrong.
.  
.  --Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca

Frame zealots rise up! ;)

We create our documentation in FrameMaker and publish in .pdf and other
formats.  I'll take handwritten comments or online comments in .pdf, but I
/never/ use Word.

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John Cook
Technical Writer
Technical Information Services Group
Camtronics Medical Systems
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