ARE: Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Alan 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.

Yes, generally agreed!

But, I would also add that FrameScript is something (albeit an extra cost add-on) that I could/would not do without ... :)

Z