ARE: Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

[Fred Ridder]

Alan T Litchfield wrote:
 

> On 4/06/2010, at 5:35 AM, Tim J. Slager wrote:
> 
> > I worked for 10 years at a company where we used Word to create 
> > professional documentation with page counts reaching into the 
> > thousands with very consistent template styles and rare file 
> > corruption. We had the advantage of a developer who could make Word 
> > do almost anything and had custom tool bars and automated 
> > documentation generation built into Word. The flexibility allowed by 
> > VBA programming is a great strength of Word.
> 
> 
> Very important point that. With Frame you don't have to be a 
> programmer to the things you need to be a programmer to do with Word.


But if you need to script operations or really want to do some customization, FrameMaker does have FrameScript and the FDK. Admittedly not as integrated as Word's macro recorder and the VBA editor, but they get the job done.

-Fred Ridder
 		 	   		  
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