Re: Any Word on Word?

[Toni Williams TPG/SG <towilliams -at- PROCYONGROUP -dot- COM>]

You have to have Service Release 1 (SR-1) installed with Word 97 to
avoid the graphics problems. (Check Help/About) Then it should work
alright with the size of documents you are talking about. At least it
does ok for me. For larger documents, however, it can really be a
nightmare.

Toni

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dianne Moscrip [SMTP:dmoscrip -at- PACIFICCOAST -dot- NET]
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 6:03 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Any Word on Word?
>
> Forget it!  I recently tried to use word to put together a catalog and
> it
> kept crashing.  With the version I was using, Word 97, I found I could
> only
> put in around 3 large photos before it started acting up.
>
> there, my $2 worth.
>
> I switched to PageMaker 6.5 and it was a snap.
> Dianne Moscrip
>
> At 10:53 PM 10/15/1998 -0400, Al Brown wrote:
> >My department is wondering whether to consider using Word 97 instead
> of
> >PageMaker for our major documents. We're being encouraged to do so by
> our
> >translation agencies, who claim we'd save on costs, but the people
> who
> >broker our printing don't want us to, for reasons that they aren't
> too
> >specific about. Our manuals are about 50-100 pages and up, with a
> >substantial number of graphics.
> >I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with experiences to
> share--positive
> >or negative.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >-Al Brown
> >
>


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