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Subject:Re: Large Documents in Word From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:15:23 -0800
My SMEs have full access to my source in Confluence. So far it has not
been a problem.
That's probably in large measure because the formatting options
exposed in the UI are so limited that it's hard to do anything wrong
(in other words, the opposite of out-of-the-box MS Word).
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:49 AM, John Allred <john2 -at- allrednet -dot- com> wrote:
> The problem, in my mind, is in using software that gives contributors any access, whatsoever, to format and layout. We--some of us, anyway--solved that problem decades ago, then threw in the towel to a specious "ease-of-use" argument that elevated Word to consideration as a collaborative tool.
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