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Re: Word and multiple conditions (a cutting edge skill?)
Subject:Re: Word and multiple conditions (a cutting edge skill?) From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:21:56 -0400
From: <MList -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com>
They want to try it with our Test Cases
> and other QA documents, and then (assuming success) implement
> the same thing with my customer documents (whimper, whine...)
> ... meaning that I'd have to abandon FrameMaker.
> But if enough of you think that Word is a suitable tool, I can
> hold my nose... :-)
>
> The criteria are that it be set-up then run in automated fashion,
> and then require only minimal tweaking/fixing, of the generated
> documents. Whaddya think?
>
I think that their manager should be requiring the proponents to perform a
demonstration of the task before they do it on anything real. At the same
time, their manager should require the proponents to provide him or her with
the technical details of the process in Word in writing BEFORE any
demonstration.
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