RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

Good question. Perhaps "add little or arguably nothing to _my docs_"
would have been better than add "absolutely nothing."

But I am not saying that numbering is always unnecessary. My procedures
are short enough to not require numbers. Yours, obviously, are more
complex and require numbers. I am big fan of dogma only when it comes to
religion. Otherwise, I prefer responding to the exigency.

In response to Dan, the primary auto number problems I have have to do
with single sourcing. Help & Manual doesn't support renumbering of
embedded topics. And, last I checked, it doesn't pick up auto numbering
from where it left off if there is an intervening graphic or style.

So, I can drop single sourcing and manually number steps that arguably
gain nothing from numbering, or I can spend my time improving the docs
in other ways. If numbering--in my docs--was necessary or I had an
infinite amount of time (and had nothing better to do with it than to
number lists that don't require numbering), I would use numbering.

Leonard C. Porrello
SoleraTec LLC
www.soleratec.com
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:31 AM
To: Leonard C. Porrello; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

Leonard C. Porrello wrote:
 
> 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?

Which came first, the problems building flow charts or the absolute
certainty that they add nothing to your docs? ;-)

Richard


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Polycom, Inc.
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303-223-5111
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