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Re: Single-sourcing with Word (an extension to Large Documents in Word)
Subject:Re: Single-sourcing with Word (an extension to Large Documents in Word) From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com> Date:Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:49:07 -0800
I've read quite a few descriptions of how people have kludged
conditional text in MS Word. They remind me of discussions of how it
can handle numbered paragraphs, nested lists, and long documents
without problems.
It's hard for me to imagine that anyone who has used FrameMaker's
conditional text would think that Word's IF fields were a
near-equivalent.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com> wrote:
> Yes, Word has multiple methods for this. You don't need SmartDocs.
>
> More generally: Whenever someone answers you can't do something in Word that you can do in other programs, wait to see who answers next.
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