Multiple versions of same manual

Subject: Multiple versions of same manual
From: hm chou <hchou -at- INTERACCESS -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:15:49 -0500

setup: a product i am working on comes in three flavors -- Local,
Networked, and Enhanced Networked. i wrote a manual for what has ended up
being the Enhanced Networked product -- when i started there was only going
to be 1 product, not 3. now that it's 3 separate but similar products, i'm
being asked to create a separate Local manual and Network manual b/c we
don't want the Local customers thinking they're getting a stripped down
product. it's a fairly messy job, since many of the features intertwine
throughout the three different products.

question: is there a way to print the 3 manuals w/out actually having to
write 3 separate manuals? i'm worried about updating the manuals since in
many places they share the same information, and would then have to be
updated 3 separate times (since i'm a contractor, the job of updating hte
manuals will likely fall to someone else, either contract or permanent). is
there a way to tag sentences and paragraphs as belonging to one manual and
not another (like BUILDTAGS in WinHelp), and during printing, enable or
disable these tags? and lastly, is there a way to do this in Word 97
(blah!)?
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Fetchez la vache!

Hsuan-min Chou
hchou -at- interaccess -dot- com
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