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Subject:Need book about Word longdoc techniques From:Michael Hoffman <mhoffman -at- thinkshare -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:49:16 -0700
It is surprising that the 3rd party books don't have a chapter "dealing with
typical Word problems with longdocs". I'm new at this subject, but my Net
surfing this week reveals some standard techniques and tricks for using
longdocs -- things that I doubt are in the 3rd party Word books. What's
really needed is a Word book especially for longdocs, including:
o Bullets and numbering: using macro to define; avoiding dialog box
o Multifile page cross-refs
o Using master doc (always expect corruption; use backups) and referenced
doc field
o Conditional text techniques.
o Margin techniques.
o Linking to graphics rather than embedding them.
o Turn off Fast Save -- #1 file corruption cause.
Basically, how to force Word to behave more like FrameMaker, despite itself.
There are standard solutions, but they are not gathered together in one
place.
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