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Subject:Re: HTML Editors and ISO documentation From:DonnaA844 -at- AOL -dot- COM Date:Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:59:26 -0500
> Why would you elect to put your ISO docs into HTML and view >with
Netscape,when a)that lets people save your doc locally, >something you
definitely don't want to do in an ISO >environment, and b)limits your layout
options? Why not go >with Acrobat or something similar that can't be messed
with >andmaintains formatting?
Our Quality Assurance Dept. has all of ISO procedures and work instructions
in MS Word password protected files on our network. It's easy to update and
all our PC and Mac users already have Word on their computers.
Since the docs are password protected, users can view the docs in read-only
format or print them. Printed version have a 5 day expiration date on them,
so the user knows to trash them after that time.
I realize some of you will probably cringe when you see that we are using MS
Word; however, it works for us!
