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RE: Revisiting Frame vs. Word in light of new capabilities
Subject:RE: Revisiting Frame vs. Word in light of new capabilities From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:19:31 -0500
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> From: T.W. Smith
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:04 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Revisiting Frame vs. Word in light of new capabilities
>
> ... Word's main problem is lack of stability for long documents. It's
> missing other things, like numbering that works reliably...
SEQ numbering works reliably. So does ListNum numbering.
> ... being able to insert graphics and lay them out,
> more than one or two to a page...
Been there, done that.
> ... hypertext index...
Ya got me there (unless you buy Steve Hudson's Indexer for $250).
> cross-references to styles other than the ones that
> come as headings in Normal.dot, etc.
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