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Re: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?

Subject: Re: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?
From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:02:46 -0500


At 8:49 AM -0700 5/28/02, Gary Clark wrote:

Dick Margulis points out WHY MS-Word is so ubiquitous, but my experience has
been that the reason why so many companies seem to demand its use for
creation of manuals lies in the desire for ease of editing and changing
those documents later, by others who are not tech writers.

The argument I hear all the time is along the lines that they all already
know Word and how to use it. They don't want to learn something new (like
FrameMaker) that is used only for books and manuals. And they want to be
able to fire the tech writer as soon as he is finished and take over ongoing
changes to the documentation using either the cheapest possible help they
can get or by having an engineer do it.

Does this sound familiar to any of you?

Gary Clark
Las Vegas, Nevada

And they hire another tech writer about 6 months later because they can't cut the mustard. And the cycle starts all over again. The PHB strikes again.

Scott


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