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Subject:Re: Powerpoint is overkill for manuals! From:Linda Castellani <linda -at- GRIC -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:15:58 -0800
I'm fascinated by this. Could you please say more about how you use Access
for this?
And would you please define "media neutral"?
>I can't think of anything in the Office suite that is more suitable to
>modern manual production than Access. We use Access to do media neutral
>authoring and then do simultaneous delivery to PostScript, PDF, WinHelp, and
>HTML. Presentation in each media is appropriate to that media. The entire
>production process for all media takes about 4 hours.
>
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