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Subject:RE: The Good Side of Word - ??? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 6 Nov 2006 05:55:12 -0800 (PST)
> This makes the next tech writer, who *does* work well in Word, look
> better: "How did you do that? The last guy said it couldn't be
> done..."
I never tell anyone that Word can't do anything. I do say that to get
some things to work as designed in Word requires someone who knows
how to get it to jump through that particular hoop (and who brings
their own chicken).
Besides...my job isn't to look good. My job is to make the client and
its deliverable look good and whether I can do it or not doesn't
matter if the client can't reproduce the same results after I leave.
Is it acceptable that an application requires a special touch to get
an included feature to work?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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