Career advice--which application to focus on: FM or Word?

[Ron Miller]

Word has its place, but if you want to have a structured/disciplined 
approach to document creation, Frame wins hands down. There really is no 
comparison. I tried using WWP for Word, but I was so frustrated trying 
to set up the Word document for WWP that I gave up and went back to 
Frame. And I might add, I've been doing this for 18 years, and have been 
using Word since version 2.0, and there are still so many things I just 
don't get about it.

Ron



Steve Rickaby wrote:
> At 16:15 -0400 17/5/06, Ron Miller wrote:
> 
>> If I experiment with style changes, Word creates a new style like Body + blue font + 6 pt line spacing. It handles numbered lists very poorly and it is quirky and seems to lack any coherent use model. Frame on the other, while not perfect (what software is) and certainly less intuitive at least does what you want it to do and doesn't try to do so many things you wish it wouldn't.
> 
> I think the key difference can be summed up by saying that Word takes a lifetime to master to the degree at which it can be used to produce results comparable to those that can be produced quite easily with Frame. It can be done, but is it worth it?