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Subject:Re: Company Wide Change from WP to Word From:Tami Goodall <tamig -at- DGTL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:18:00 P
No kidding. On a recent project, we lost 2 weeks repairing damage on a 275
document. The feature is abomidable. It renames files when it runs out of
memory, corrupts footnotes, cross-references, tables of contents, and
indices - to mention only a few things.
Tami Goodall
Digital Systems International, Inc.
tamig -at- dsinet -dot- dgtl -dot- com
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From: TECHWR-L
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Company Wide Change from WP to Word
Date: Friday, July 14, 1995 4:22PM
Master Documents do not work! I have lost work in testing this feature
and I have
known 5 others who have lost files or significant work trying to use
this feature. You
can construct long documents using INCLUDE fields and other techniques,
but steer
clear of Master Documents in Word.
Make that 7 -- two of here at AT&T ACUS had similar problems.
