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Subject:RE: Working with large documents in Word From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:35:48 -0400
Hi Dori,
For a different perspective, see <http://tinyurl.com/35azs6>. Jonathan
West isn't the only one working successfully with 1,000+ page Word
documents, but I think his approach makes the most sense.
Happy Thursday,
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dori Green
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:21 AM
> To: techwr-l
> Subject: RE: Working with large documents in Word
>
> ... Word is not designed for large documents, it does
> not like them, and they make it sick. When Word is
> sick, nobody else is going to be happy. Word will
> make sure of that.
>
> I am not a fan of huge documents. They are almost
> always hard to manage, hard to read, hard to use...
>
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