RE: Time required for formatting Documents?

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

>BTW, I really disagree with John. There's no need for it to take a long
time in
>Frame. Just use copy>special and then paste the paragraph or character
format
>everywhere it's needed.

I guess some of my opinion was colored by a document that I received last
week.

The entire document, from Word, about 20 pages, had at least 10 different
paragraph formats, all done by hand as the style for the complete document
was still Normal, and ALL alignment was done with the space bar and hard
return at the end of almost every line.

Numbering and step numbering was done by typed numbers and EVERYTHING was in
table cells, almost a page long each...so when I imported into Frame and the
cells didn't break, the text ran off the bottom of each page.

The hard part wasn't so much formatting, but making sure that the numbering
hierarchy stayed in sync with the original document....and since it was a
document for network cutover, almost everything had numbers....sometimes
four levels deep: 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.1.1, and let's not forget your favorite
and mine, 1.1.1.1.1

Granted, this was the most extreme case I'd ever seen, and it took me most
of a day to get it into Frame and formatted....I did a mental multiplication
of the poster's 60 pages. 

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
 "Be accurate...the 4am wakeup call you prevent could be your manager's"


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