RE: Question: Generating one Word document in RoboHelpwithallconditional text

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holly Steele
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 5:40 PM
> To: technical writing plus
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Question: Generating one Word document in 
> RoboHelpwithallconditional text
> 
> ... The company wants one document in Word with 
> conditional text and images so that not as skilled Word 
> users that work at the company can easily and globally 
> update the manual.

For conditional text, character styles are my favorite method, but there
are other methods that work well. However, there is *no* conditional
text method in Word that's appropriate for "not as skilled users."

> ... They want a Master document so that they can link 
> the shared sections to the manuals that have those 
> sections. A master document would allow them to update 
> the shared sections once and have the updates globally 
> applied to all relevant manuals that the shared 
> sections are linked to. The rationale makes sense to me...

Master Documents are usually avoided, even by Word experts. RD fields
are easier and more stable. But this gets back to the previous problem:
Even RD fields aren't appropriate for "not as skilled users."































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