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Subject:Re: (Fwd) Developers and electronic mark-ups From:Nancy McDonald <nmcdonald -at- OTECH -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 21 Mar 1997 16:03:37 -0500
My $.02 worth... I am writing a user guide, and my reviewer is the
project leader 70 miles away. We email versions back and forth, and we
both work in MS Word. He simply clicks on the "revision" mode (either
tools menu,revisions... or double click on the "MRK" box at the bottom
of the doc) choose revision options; toggle on or off; and viola, I can
see his edits, and I change according to his and my judgments.. It
works for us.
Nancy McDonald
Bernice Kieffer wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 Mary_McCauley-Stiff wrote:
>
> "Has anyone ever allowed (er, enabled) their developers to electronically
> markup a document instead of marking it up by hand? Our developers are
> interested in making comments/additions electronically to the document
> during review time."
> >
> >
> "Any suggestions? If anyone out there has a similar situation as I do,
> I'd like to hear about it."
>
> I would stick with the idea of using Acrobat Exchange since each reviewer can
> then add his or her own review "Notes" to the document without changing the
> original text. You can then read each "Note" as you go through the document and
> incorporate them as necessary or you could download all the "Notes" to a file
> and then do your edits. It is a really great feature. The only real drawback is
> price.
>
> Bernice Kieffer
> Writer/Course Developer
> bernice_kieffer -at- MentorG -dot- com
>
> Thanks,
> Mary McCauley-Stiff
>
> mary_mccauley-stiff -at- stratus -dot- com
> marym-s -at- mindspring -dot- com
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