Your millage may vary. I found that I could get it to work, but it would blow up, either on me at a future date, or on someone else when they opened the file, and I would have to go and fix it.
Scott Jon Harvey wrote: > I don't use the latest version of Word but Word 2003 had a pretty good, > and reliable autonumbering method. Unfortunately, you had to know how to > fumble through the poorly designed interface and even more poorly > documented method for setting it up. I used it to successfully create a > numbering scheme that was six levels deep (X.X.X.X.X.X) with figures and > tables in a guide that was more than 150 pages. I was also able to > revise the guide and the numbering would automatically update for me. > > I'll be the first on this list to say that Microsoft's approach to > autonumbering is absolutely screwy; but, at least it did work in Word > 2003. > > > Jon Harvey > Manager, Desktop Documentation > CambridgeSoft Corporation > 100 CambridgePark Drive > Cambridge, MA 02140 > (617) 588-9354 > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > qui...@airmail.net > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:22 PM > To: generic...@yahoo.ca > Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Martinek, Carla; Saunders, Ian > Subject: Re: Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame > > I have used Word 2007. They tried to fix what wasn't broken. And no, > they didn't fix either the numbering system or multi-file operations. > It's still oriented toward smaller documents with less complexity. > > I also would avoid it for any XML work. My preference, but their past > history of munging HTML files in export doesn't inspire trust. > > Their new GUI isn't intuitive, The use of icons isn't effective as they > don't describe all things for all people. There is a very steep learning > > curve, and a lot of frustration. Since they don't use menus you can't > refer to things easily for keyboard access to dialogs. You basically > have to find MS's own help listing of keyboard equivalents, and then > memorize them. It's not user friendly. > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
