RE: Working with large documents in Word

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

I'll be interested in what Jonathan and Dan have to say. I, for one,
would not care to copy text willy-nilly from another Word document once
I'd taken the care described to achieve my own pristine Word documents.
At a minimum, I would want to Paste Special the copied information as
unformatted text and then apply the carefully created styles from my
template. This can mean extra effort if you wish to replicate the
formatting from the copied document, but it can save a lot of grief,
too.

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To: Jonathan West; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Working with large documents in Word

Hi Jonathan, Dan,

I am interested in what you have to say about being able to work with
longer documents in Word, if care has been taken to set Word and the
template up appropriately. Another aspect I have found myself concerned
about when working with Word, however,  is the vulnerability of the
document or template to accidental corruption (via, say, copying in text
in from another Office document in certain circumstances) that could
happen as a result of a moment of inattention, or by an unfamiliar
author. Frame is pretty resistant in this regard. Would you say that a
Word document, properly set up as was mentioned in some of the articles
I just read in the links provided, is also pretty safe from accidental
corruption? (by corruption I mean such things as accidental introduction
of new styles, bugs introduced into numbering, etc.)

Thanks,
Paul
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