Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

[Jon Harvey]

I don't use the latest version of Word but Word 2003 had a pretty good,
and reliable autonumbering method. Unfortunately, you had to know how to
fumble through the poorly designed interface and even more poorly
documented method for setting it up. I used it to successfully create a
numbering scheme that was six levels deep (X.X.X.X.X.X) with figures and
tables in a guide that was more than 150 pages. I was also able to
revise the guide and the numbering would automatically update for me.

I'll be the first on this list to say that Microsoft's approach to
autonumbering is absolutely screwy; but, at least it did work in Word
2003.

 
Jon Harvey
Manager, Desktop Documentation
CambridgeSoft Corporation
100 CambridgePark Drive
Cambridge, MA 02140
(617) 588-9354
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I have used Word 2007. They tried to fix what wasn't broken. And no, 
they didn't fix either the numbering system or multi-file operations. 
It's still oriented toward smaller documents with less complexity.

I also would avoid it for any XML work. My preference, but their past 
history of munging HTML files in export doesn't inspire trust.

Their new GUI isn't intuitive, The use of icons isn't effective as they 
don't describe all things for all people. There is a very steep learning

curve, and a lot of frustration. Since they don't use menus you can't 
refer to things easily for keyboard access to dialogs. You basically 
have to find MS's own help listing of keyboard equivalents, and then 
memorize them. It's not user friendly.

Scott

Writer wrote:
> I have to agree with Carla on this point. Although, I'm tempted to
amend her statement to say "it would take AT LEAST 25-30% longer". I
haven't used the most recent version of Word either, but I'm sure if
things had improved, I'd have heard about it through the grapevine.
>
> Nadine
>
>
> --- On Thu, 4/9/09, Martinek, Carla <CMartinek at zebra.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I can make it work in Word, but I can guarantee it will take more
time as you are continually "fixing" things that shouldn't have had
issues to start with. I estimate that Word docs take 25-30% longer just
because of the inherent issues.
>>     
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