Lock up templates. Restrict access to source files. However, having said that, I'm reminded of this quote:
“You can’t make anything idiot proof because idiots are so ingenious.” Nadine >________________________________ > From: Corinne Kenney <skiken...@yahoo.com> >To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> >Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 2:25:58 PM >Subject: Re: Word and Frame comparisons > > > >You are probably right. And when people say "everybody knows Word," I tend to >give this reply: > >The "good" thing about Word is that you can just open it up and start typing. >The bad thing about Word is that -- you can just open it up and start typing. > >Corinne Kenney >Sr. Technical Editor/Writer >Raytheon Company > > >From: Ken Poshedly <poshe...@bellsouth.net> >To: Alastair Dent <alastair.d...@imgtec.com>; Maxwell Hoffmann ><mhoff...@adobe.com>; Shmuel Wolfson <shmue...@gmail.com>; Theresa de Valence ><t...@bstw.com> >Cc: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> >Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 7:04 AM >Subject: Re: Word and Frame comparisons > > > >It's been my own experience that "requests" (actually "directives") for using >only Word came from the Marketing Dept and/or others who didn't believe that >Tech Pubs could do the job and demanded the ability to go in and "correct >things" as they saw fit. And because "everybody knows Word", well, that was >that. (I remember looking at some of their "corrections" and I'm glad not to >be there and take the "hate calls" from totally confused customers.) > > > > > >From: Alastair Dent <alastair.d...@imgtec.com> >>To: Maxwell Hoffmann <mhoff...@adobe.com>; Shmuel Wolfson >><shmue...@gmail.com>; Theresa de Valence <t...@bstw.com> >>Cc: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> >>Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 5:17 AM >>Subject: RE: Word and Frame comparisons >> >> >>This is 'sort of' possible in Word. >> >>Word cascades style definitions. So you should define all your heading styles >>based on a style called, say, 'Heading Base'. Then you only alter the design >>as required for each style. If all your headings use the same font family, >>then it is possible to change the font family by altering the 'Heading Base' >>style. However, if one of your headings uses a different font family from >>'Heading Base', the new 'Heading Base' font family won't cascade to that >>heading. >> >>The same applies to all other definitions in the paragraph style. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com >>[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Maxwell Hoffmann >>Sent: 19 September 2013 18:19 >>To: Shmuel Wolfson; Theresa de Valence >>Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com >>Subject: RE: Word and Frame comparisons >> >>I can think of at least one thing FrameMaker can do with paragraph updates >>that I don't think is possible in Word; you can globally update multiple >>paragraph styles in one step: >> >>(1) Create "Heading1" "Heading 2" "Heading3" next to each other >>(2) Drag select through these 3 paragraphs, and Control-M to open Paragraph >>Designers >>(3) Go to font level. Notice that there is no name displayed for the >>paragraph style and that some of the values are set to "As Is" (probably font >>size) >>(4) Change the color to Blue and click on Update All >>(5) FrameMaker will ask you if you'd like to apply only font changes to paragraphs in selected area >>(6) Click OK, and you have just changed the catalog definition for 3 >>paragraphs in one step. >> >>You can see a brief video demo of this at: http://adobe.ly/18ddZqI >> >> >> >>Maxwell Hoffmann | Product Evangelist | Adobe | p. 503.336.5952 | c. >>503.805.3719 | mhoff...@adobe.com http://twitter.com/maxwellhoffmann- >>http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellhoffmann%C2%A0blogs.adobe.com/techcomm >>Upcoming webinars http://adobe.ly/Pbz6xI Recorded webinars: >>http://adobe.ly/Pbdp0J >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com >>[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson >>Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:10 AM >>To: Theresa de Valence >>Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com >>Subject: Re: Word and Frame comparisons >> >>Here's a nice solution for that: >>http://www.elharo.com/blog/word/2005/12/28/word-tip-1-reapplying-styles/ >> >> >> >>On 17-Sep-13 6:04 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote: >>> Hi, this is possibly not the right place to ask this question, but ... >>> I have a lot of experience with Frame and very little experience with >>> MS Word. >>> >>> In Frame I can overwrite all paragraph format overrides with a click. >>> >>> Can this be done in Word? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Theresa >>_______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. 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