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Without going into too many details, it sounds like your problems
(especially #3!) are at least partially caused by a lack of knowledge about
Word -- and also possibly by inadequate hardware. I am not sure that going
to Frame will solve these problems.
FYI, I work frequently with Word documents in excess of 100 pages, with no
problems. However, it is true that Frame handles large book projects better
than Word.
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rakefet Zadik [mailto:rakefet -at- riverhead -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:17 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: FrameMaker and track changes?
>
> The problems with word are:
> 1. It crashed too much.
> 2. We have problems converting some of the files to pdf.
> It takes a long time and we play a lot with the file until
> we succeed.
> 3. We copy some of the stuff between two user guides and
> in many cases the format changes in between.
> 4. Some of our chapters a re 48 pages long. I read
> somewhere that after 50 pages Word doesn't always handle the
> files very well and we don't want to fine ourselves in that situation.
>
> Does this make enough sense to move to Frame?
>
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