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Subject:RE: Developing 150-page docs in MS Word XP From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:28:13 -0500
Hi Solveig,
Your link-don't-insert comment is an excellent point, and it applies to Word
no less than OOo. The problem (as previously pointed out on TECHWR-L) is
that some collaborative environments make linking impractical.
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Solveig Haugland
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:14 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Developing 150-page docs in MS Word XP
>
> ...Having the memory to handle a large file isn't an issue in
> OpenOffice.org because you have to work realllllly hard to
> get any file over a MB. (Well, you have
> to insert rather than linking to the graphics. But that's
> just a good idea, linking.)...