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Subject:RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word? From:"Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:26:57 -0700
Word isn't the only tool that features auto numbering . . . and I don't
author in Word . . . and I wasn't talking about problems people have
authoring in Word.
If flow charts added absolutely nothing to my docs and I had problems
building flow chars in Visio, I would not use Visio. Would you?
Leonard C. Porrello
SoleraTec LLC
www.soleratec.com
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> To avoid autonumbering problems, I do not number
> procedures...
Really? If you had problems building flow charts in Visio, would you
therefore not use flow charts?
> Another benefit of using a graphic instead of a
> number is that I can reuse just segments of
> procedures. Where you have a numbered procedure,
> say steps 1-7, you can't pull out just steps 2,
> 3, and 4 to use them as steps 4, 5, and 6 on
> another page...
Yes, I can. SEQ fields do that just fine. So do ListNum fields. Our
Word-based servicing and manufacturing procedures often borrow pieces of
each other's numbered sequences, with no problem at all. Everything
renumbers as required, every time.
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