Re: QUESTION: Bad Experiences with FrameMaker 5.5 and Office 97?

[Linda Merrifield <linda -dot- merrifield -at- CITA -dot- COM>]

I am running Frame 5.5. I've been using it for over 2 weeks very
heavily. I've had a fatal error several times, all performing the same
thing (while using Find/Replace, Find Backward, finding item, clicking
off search backward indicator and clicking Change & Find; I was
searching for a paragraph format and replacing with a paragraph format
from the clipboard[pasting]). This error has been reported to Adobe.

I've stayed away from Word 8 (Office 97). Too many problems for me, plus
most of our documents are in FrameMaker.

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> From:         rcurrier[SMTP:rcurrier -at- RAINBOW -dot- COM]
> Sent:         Friday, October 24, 1997 11:10 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      QUESTION: Bad Experiences with  FrameMaker 5.5 and
> Office 97?
>
> Hope these questions are not off-topic. I need the advice of the
> mighty
> Techwhirler list to address an upgrade issue at my company.
>
> We have used FrameMaker 5.1 for the last several months for producing
> larger manuals, and Word 7 (Office 95) for smaller documents (both on
> Windows 95). Early reports on this list concerning FrameMaker 5.5
> bugs scared me away from installing the 5.5 update, even though we
> have it. I haven't seen much traffic on 5.5 bugs lately. Should I go
> for
> it and
> install 5.5, or wait for a patch release?
>
> Similar question on Office 97. Reports of serious bugs in Word 8 in
> Office 97 have "dis-incentivized" (just kidding--no flames please) me
> from installing Office 97 for production work. (Few of the external
> offices we exchange Word files with are using Office 97.) Would you
> wait for fixes from Microsoft, or install Office 97 now?
>
> What say the Techwhirlers? Feel free to e-mail me
> privately, if you don't want to clutter up the
> list with this topic.
>
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> Robin Currier
> Technical Documentation Manager
> Rainbow Technologies, Inc.
> E-mail: rcurrier -at- rainbow -dot- com
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