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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:David Farbey <dfarbey -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- uk> To:"TECHWR-L (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Dec 2014 07:56:14 +0000
Technical writers often find things like conditional text very useful.
FrameMaker offers such features as standard, whereas in Word the features
may be there but they aren't obvious or easy to use.
If you have the time and the inclination to investigate the more advanced
features in Word - or don't have the budget to invest in FrameMaker -
there's an enormous amount of information available to help you learn,
including a dedicated mailing list (see http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/word-pc.html).
On 2 December 2014 at 03:49, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
> 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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