ARE: Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

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I rather find the apology that Word can be made to function reliably 
ONLY IF one reprograms it to be begging the question. It is usually 
thought that one buys software that functions without the user having to 
fix the program they just spent a few hundred dollars on.

Scott

On 6/3/10 12:35 PM, Tim J. Slager wrote:
> Frame is clunky; Word is quirky.
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> I have to agree numbered lists are Word's Achilles heal, although I can (usually) get them to work.
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> 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.
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> That said, there is something comforting about the stolid reliability of FM--once you get it figured out.
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> tims
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