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Re: Word gurus, I need help

Subject: Re: Word gurus, I need help
From: "Harry Bacheler" <hbacheler -at- aol -dot- com>
To: "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>, "Turner, Katherine" <kturner -at- Metastorm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:07:43 -0500

Nancy,

From my perspective, you should have the body of the document broken into
separate sections.

Here is MY reasoning.

If you are going to issue change pages for the document, it is easier to just print one page or one section.

Consider the 'cost' to republish the 'entire' document when only one page needs to be changes.
Your table of contents would basically stay the same, and you could make use of the Record of Changes page, if you chose to include it.

For instance, if you had a 'single' page to 'reissue' you could just print the page.

Or you could reprint the Section, and issue that as a set of page changes.

You could even print a 'section' in its entirety and distribut it with a record of change pages .

Since you can print on your printer and use a copier for this you will save money.

A helpful exercise would be to 'cost out' a document - full, partial, single page.

Use inhouse resources cost and also the use of an outside printer.

Hope this helps.

Harry
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: "Turner, Katherine" <kturner -at- Metastorm -dot- com>; "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 10:50 AM
Subject: RE: Word gurus, I need help


Thanks, everyone. From what you've described, it's clear to me that sections break between the table of contents and body, and between the body and index, will be all I need.

Thanks, Kathleen, for spelling out all the reasons sections can be useful. It sounds as if they are helpful when documents go to an actual printer and get bound into an actual book. Now that everything is planned for office laser printers, a lot of those techniques have been dropped -- which is a damned shame, I say! A Damned Shame!

Nancy, getting started on her Friday


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