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Subject:RE: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project? From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:25:20 -0500
Hi Raj,
I Googled this question on TECHWR-L, and guess what? Your name came up
on the very first page! Jonathan West replied to *you* about this in
August. So did I. We gave you some very simple steps for successfully
creating large Word documents. Did you follow our advice in creating
your document?
500 pages in Word is no big deal.
Happy Wednesday,
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raj Machhan
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:16 AM
> To: Geoff Hart
> Cc: techwr-l List
> Subject: Re: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project?
>
> Guess we are expecting too much out of MS Word. It
> is word processer and not a tool meant for creating
> large documents containing styles and graphics. I
> got my fingers burnt recently creating a 500 page
> System Design Document. I am richer by experience
> and I can sum it up in two words: "Never Again!"
> One reason why we tend to deploy Word for almost
> every task is its easy availability. We can access
> it on almost every desktop or PC but this does not
> automatically mean that we start using it for every
> assignment. The software has some wonderful
> functions but creating large documents is certainly
> not one of them.
>
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