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Subject:Re: Word 2007 cross-references From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 2 Oct 2009 20:41:54 -0700
The notion that word processors and PDFs are only for printed
documents seems pretty quaint given how many documents are seldom or
never printed these days. A good word processor should be able to
create a decent PDF and a decent HTML page. PDFs are better than HTML
for offline use since you can just download or e-mail a single file.
Word's not the best choice for anything. There's inevitably something
that doesn't work. I just used it because it was on the computer and
the draft an engineer created was in Word. Should have known better.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> Perhaps a word processor is not the best choice of tool for creating a
> soft-format document. If it's all you have to work with, I've seen several
> macro-based approaches to setting cross-reference formatting. I've never used
> any of them, so I don't know if they work.
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