Re: Maximum File Size For Word Documents

[Gene Kim-Eng <gene -at- genek -dot- com>]

This has been my experience at virtually every consulting contract I've 
done.  I do some work for
a local company that is too small to be able to have their own publications 
people full-time, and
one of their big requirements is that their engineers and programmers be 
able to make minor changes
to the materials I've created between their calls to me for major ones.  I 
do their manufacturing process
sheets in Word (they're the most frequently changed) and their online help 
in very simple Robo, for
which I have created a single-sheet set of instructions that walk someone 
through opening, making
text changes to existing topics and recompiling.  Their previous contract 
writer did their software's
user guide in FrameMaker, and even though they have FM installed on one of 
their systems, they
have to call me up every time they need to make the most minor of changes 
because they have
nobody in-house who can use it.  They tell me that contractor turned up her 
nose at the mention of
doing this doc in Word, I told them I can create their next rev in any app 
they want it in, *and* design
the page layout so that anyone can go in and make a small change without 
causing it to explode.  The
"proper tool" for any job is the one that makes the client happiest and 
makes them want to call you back
for more.

Gene Kim-Eng



At 08:25 AM 3/31/2003 -0800, dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com wrote: