Re: I know why Word is a four letter word

[John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Yeah...thanks...I'm not going to try yet. I should probably produce some
stuff before I ask them to spend a few thousand dollars and turn things
upside down. Maybe we'll get there.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 2:14 PM tammyvb <tammyvb -at- spectrumwritingllc -dot- com>
wrote:

> You should check out Cloud Drafts from Quadralay. It would be an awesome
> way to collaborate and make your shop a Framemaker shop. And I have
> documents that detail the extra cost of using Word vs a true desktop
> publishing tool that saved my bacon years ago when getting an old gig
> converted from Word to Framemaker.
>
>
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>
> Date: 11/20/19 10:57 AM (GMT-07:00)
> To: Tech Writers <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Subject: I know why Word is a four letter word
>
> Hi, guys...after being an FM user for more than 5 years, I feel I'm having
> to learn Word (v2016) all over again.
>
> For the last 3 days, I've been wrestling with styles. In effect, my issue
> is, when I define a style, I want it to stay defined exactly how I defined
> it. I don't want to have it indent on me,  If I define a bullet with a .25
> indent, I want it to STAY indented .25 and not change on me. If I make a
> line a bullet, I don't want the whole F'ing document to turn bullet.
>
> I WISH I could make this place an FM shop, but there is just too much
> document collaboration needed here and even I can't see the overall
> advantage.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
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