Hi Laura, Sorry I didn't notice your original post.
Word has some issues with (not an exhaustive list): Long documents Graphics Lists Multi-chapter files Long Documents Word files have been known to go corrupt when documents get too long. Now "long" is a relative term--I'm talking about hundreds of pages per documents. One company I worked with was having text simply disappear from documents and it was costing them $250,000 per year to recover them. Graphics Most people cut-and-paste graphics into Word. This can lead to overly large and corrupt files. Word can link to a graphic like Frame and this will prevent most corruption, but the link option has to be chosen every time you insert a graphic. Plus, as far as I know, there is no collection method for the linked graphics. Lists Cutting-and-pasting lists in Word is a pain since it tries to "think" for you. Frame does exactly what you tell it to do. Word lists can be fixed and renumbered, but it takes additional time to fix it up. Multi-chapter files Creating TOCs and other lists in Word for multiple files is a pain. Not much you can do about it other than to reuse pre-setup Word "books" like you would in Frame. Word does have some benefits too, of course, including the fact that almost everyone has it, saving money. David Creamer IDEAS Training http://www.ideastraining.com Adobe Authorized Instructor & Certified Expert since 1995 Authorized QuarkXPress Instructor and Certified Expert since 1988 .....Unless there is a fantastically good reason I am missing(?) then the choice is obvious. Please stick to Word henceforth and get no more production done in Framemaker." _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.