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Subject:Re: Online Manuals From:Toni Williams TPG/SG <towilliams -at- PROCYONGROUP -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:12:20 -0700
OTOH, I have distributed manuals in Word online by including the
template and directions on how to use it.
It worked fine.
Toni
whose opinions are only her own
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bergen, Jane [SMTP:janeb -at- ANSWERSOFT -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 11:09 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Online Manuals
>
> > -----Original Message-----
>> From: Suzette Seveny [mailto:sseveny -at- PETVALU -dot- COM]
> (snipped)
>> I have to develop manuals that will be kept online. Users
>> will have the
>> option to read them online, or if they prefer, print their
>> own hard copies
>>(more snipped)
>> the manuals (i.e. acrobat reader or anything like that). How
>> feasible is it to:
>> a) simply put the Word documents online (in either *.doc or
>> *.rtf format)
>> (more snipped)
>>Suzette, you do NOT want to put your Word documents online.
The problem
>>is that when someone opens a Word document that they did not
create, the
>>formatting (margins, styles, fonts, etc.) falls apart because
they do
>>not have the underlying template.
