RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

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

Dan Goldstein stated: "To always number lists is foolish dogma. To
always be *ready* to number lists is common sense."

I generally agree--except that I got management and QA buy in for how I
do procedures before I started.

To say that Help & Manual has excellent customer technical support is an
understatement. I haven't asked them about this particular issue, but I
understand enough about how the program handles embedded chunks to know
that renumbering reused embedded chunks would be cumbersome (albeit not
impossible). 

I do think we've beat this horse to death, but I do have one (not
rhetorical) question. How do all of you aficionados of numbered
procedures denote a "procedure" when it has only one step?

Leonard C. Porrello
SoleraTec LLC
www.soleratec.com
 
 

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Subject: RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard C. Porrello
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:50 PM
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> Subject: RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?
> 
> ... 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...

So what happens when you have an unnumbered list of five steps, and the
customer/client/boss says, "I'd like to have that list numbered,
please." You should be able to do it at that moment, quickly and easily.

To always number lists is foolish dogma. To always be *ready* to number
lists is common sense.

> 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...
 
It's been written on this list (not by me!) that Help & Manual has good
customer support. Did they confirm that there's no workaround for that
bug?






























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