Re: 1,000-page documents (was Working with large documents in Word)

["Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>]

<< I suspect it's the old "shelfware" monster -- looks good sitting on the
shelf, nobody ever really uses it.  An auditor says "do you have a procedure
for..." and auditee can reply "sure do, right there."  Once upon a time they
got away with this; auditor would mark their checklist and move on. >>

Not necessarily. I know of at least one regional airline which carries 40kg
of operating manuals on every plane, and they get referred to. I've been
working with them to get the manuals into PDF on CD, for use on the
computers in the cockpit.

Regards
Jonathan West


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