Re: MS Word 2003 - Working without a template

["Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>]

> And any way you look at it, a year is a helluva long time to
> be "developing" a template if a first release of it has yet
> to be incorporated into the document process.

Not necessarily. If there is a months work involved in putting
together a good template, then  it might well take a year if the only
time available is a couple of hours a week squeezed out of other
projects. Also, if management doesn't believe in the need for
templates, even if the template is completed, how would it get
"incorporated into the document process"? It could only be used
privately by the author to increase his own personal productivity.

I would take a lot less than a month over it, but then I do this sort
of thing all the time and I have a code library for the purpose
already tested & debugged.

>  If the person
> doing all the template work is primarily doing that and just
> a bit of editing, formatting and "interviewing" while Sylvia
> has been doing the bulk of the actual research and writing,
> it may be necessary to consider whether all this extended
> template development effort is being used to mask the other
> writer's unwillingness or inability to do the rest of the work,
> and whether Sylvia and her company might be better off
> with a new contractor.

If that is the case, then I agree that Sylvia would have justifiable
cause for complaint.

Regards
Jonathan West
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