First Time Framer!

[Pinkham, Jim]

For the record, I agree with both of you, as well. My only point to Mark
was that FM could be overkill for the task described in his original
post. Frame and Indy definitely offer all sorts of possibilities as Mark
broadens those horizons -- Frame, in particular, from the technical
writing side.

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From: Rene Stephenson [mailto:rinnie1 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:56 AM
To: Steve Rickaby; Mark Lawrence; Pinkham, Jim
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: First Time Framer!


I agree with Steve. The time saved of being able to use variables,
conditional text, text insets, and custom books built from shared
chapters -- all features of FM that Word can't duplicate -- has enabled
me to produce quality, custom documents that meet the various needs of
our divergent customer base with maximum efficiency. If I have to change
some info about a new development in a product, I only have to change it
in one place, and the next time I print the 13 documents about that
product, the change is consistently present in all 13 documents. At this
point, the only thing I use Word for is online forms that we distribute
to non-writers.
 
Rene Stephenson

Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:

	For me, Frame is mission-critical: no more, no less. I don't
know about broadening horizons, but if I'd been forced to use Word for
everything these past fifteen years, I'd have given up tech authoring
long ago.
	
	-- 
	Steve
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