RE: electronic submission

["Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com>]

>From an STC seminar lo these many years ago.....

First rule of technical writing is _not_ "know thy audience".

It is "if you don't have to put it in writing, DO NOT!"

If I was required to send a Word document and could not convince them to
accept a PDF, I would very definitely first cut and paste all contents of my
"final draft" as text into a new document.  All drafts would then go away
into secured hard-copy files and maybe onto a disk to be filed with the hard
copies.

Yes, I know any minimally-qualified IT person would be able to recover
"deleted" files.  But I don't have anything to hide.  And I would _still_
prep a final copy.

Most of my RFP work is for non-profits and the receivers are glad to get
something typed.  They don't quibble about formats, although the USDA did
want spreadsheets.

Dori Green

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