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Subject:Re: Problem With Microsoft Word97? From:"Backer, Corinne" <CBacker -at- GLHEC -dot- ORG> Date:Thu, 27 May 1999 16:03:33 -0500
This, among about 400 other things, is the reason we abandoned Word for
Adobe FrameMaker. Word is just not cut out for serious documentation work.
Corinne Backer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Choy
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 3:59 PM
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> Subject: Re: Problem With Microsoft Word97?
>
> Just about everyone at Documentum had that problem, too. Mainly with long
> Word docs (20 or more pages). The only way we got around it was to not
> cut/paste graphics in, but instead to Insert > Picture > From File. (some
> menu commands very close to that). It was insane. Many many screenshots
> etc.
> were lost for good from many specs, etc. They all had to be redone. You'd
> screenshot, save it as a named file w/ .gif or .bmp extention. Then have
> to
> Insert > Picture > from file and select that named file. BUT IT WORKED!
> which is nice....
>
> word97 is schizo, and so am i. :)
>
> good luck, and sorry i don't have better news,
> /Mare
>
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