Believe me I have said that as an instructor AND a user! As someone who lost, multiple times (and, of course, right at the due date) 300 page documents, I swore that if I ever had to do that kind of work in Word again, I would charge at least 5 times the normal price!
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com>wrote: > I took a Single Sourcing class a few years ago (before I moved from Word > to Frame). When I told the instructor I was writing 400+ page manuals in > Word, she replied:**** > > ** ** > > ?Word is? (long pause), Word is? (another long pause). Word is for memos.? > **** > > ** ** > > Alison**** > > ** ** > > *Alison Craig | Technical Documentation Lead * > > Ultrasonix | 130-4311 Viking Way | Richmond, BC V6V 2K9 | > analogicultrasound.com <http://www.analogicultrasound.com> **** > > *T 604-279-8550 ext 127 | F 604-279-8559** * > > ** ** > > *From:* framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto: > framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Corinne Kenney > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:26 AM > *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com > > *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 <poshedly at bellsouth.net> > *To:* Alastair Dent <alastair.dent at imgtec.com>; Maxwell Hoffmann < > mhoffman at adobe.com>; Shmuel Wolfson <shmuelw1 at gmail.com>; Theresa de > Valence <TdeV at bstw.com> > *Cc:* "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at 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.dent at imgtec.com> > *To:* Maxwell Hoffmann <mhoffman at adobe.com>; Shmuel Wolfson < > shmuelw1 at gmail.com>; Theresa de Valence <TdeV at bstw.com> > *Cc:* "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at 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-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto: > framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Maxwell Hoffmann > Sent: 19 September 2013 18:19 > To: Shmuel Wolfson; Theresa de Valence > Cc: framers at 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 | mhoffman at adobe.com http://twitter.com/maxwellhoffmann- > http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellhoffmann%C2%A0 blogs.adobe.com/techcomm > Upcoming webinars http://adobe.ly/Pbz6xI Recorded webinars: > http://adobe.ly/Pbdp0J > > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto: > framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:10 AM > To: Theresa de Valence > Cc: framers at 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 alastair.dent at imgtec.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/alastair.dent%40imgtec.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. 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