Word and Frame comparisons

[Jerilynne Knight]

Believe me I have said that as an instructor AND a user! As someone who
lost, multiple times (and, of course, right at the due date) 300 page
documents, I swore that if I ever had to do that kind of work in Word
again, I would charge at least 5 times the normal price!


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Alison Craig
<Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com>wrote:

> I took a Single Sourcing class a few years ago (before I moved from Word
> to Frame). When I told the instructor I was writing 400+ page manuals in
> Word, she replied:****
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> “Word is… (long pause), Word is… (another long pause). Word is for memos.”
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> Alison****
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> *From:* framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:
> framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Corinne Kenney
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:26 AM
> *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com
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> *Subject:* Re: Word and Frame comparisons****
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> You are probably right. And when people say "everybody knows Word," I tend
> to give this reply:****
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>  ****
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> The "good" thing about Word is that you can just open it up and start
> typing.****
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> The bad thing about Word is that -- you can just open it up and start
> typing.****
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>  ****
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> Corinne Kenney****
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> Sr. Technical Editor/Writer****
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> Raytheon Company****
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> *From:* Ken Poshedly <poshedly at bellsouth.net>
> *To:* Alastair Dent <alastair.dent at imgtec.com>; Maxwell Hoffmann <
> mhoffman at adobe.com>; Shmuel Wolfson <shmuelw1 at gmail.com>; Theresa de
> Valence <TdeV at bstw.com>
> *Cc:* "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 25, 2013 7:04 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Word and Frame comparisons****
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> It's been my own experience that "requests" (actually "directives") for
> using only Word came from the Marketing Dept and/or others who didn't
> believe that Tech Pubs could do the job and demanded the ability to go in
> and "correct things" as they saw fit. And because "everybody knows Word",
> well, that was that. (I remember looking at some of their "corrections" and
> I'm glad not to be there and take the "hate calls" from totally confused
> customers.)****
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> *From:* Alastair Dent <alastair.dent at imgtec.com>
> *To:* Maxwell Hoffmann <mhoffman at adobe.com>; Shmuel Wolfson <
> shmuelw1 at gmail.com>; Theresa de Valence <TdeV at bstw.com>
> *Cc:* "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 5:17 AM
> *Subject:* RE: Word and Frame comparisons****
>
>
> This is 'sort of' possible in Word.
>
> Word cascades style definitions. So you should define all your heading
> styles based on a style called, say, 'Heading Base'.  Then you only alter
> the design as required for each style. If all your headings use the same
> font family, then it is possible to change the font family by altering the
> 'Heading Base' style. However, if one of your headings uses a different
> font family from 'Heading Base', the new 'Heading Base' font family won't
> cascade to that heading.
>
> The same applies to all other definitions in the paragraph style.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:
> framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Maxwell Hoffmann
> Sent: 19 September 2013 18:19
> To: Shmuel Wolfson; Theresa de Valence
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Word and Frame comparisons
>
> I can think of at least one thing FrameMaker can do with paragraph updates
> that I don't think is possible in Word; you can globally update multiple
> paragraph styles in one step:
>
> (1) Create "Heading1" "Heading 2" "Heading3" next to each other
> (2) Drag select through these 3 paragraphs, and Control-M to open
> Paragraph Designers
> (3) Go to font level. Notice that there is no name displayed for the
> paragraph style and that some of the values are set to "As Is" (probably
> font size)
> (4) Change the color to Blue and click on Update All
> (5) FrameMaker will ask you if you'd like to apply only font changes to
> paragraphs in selected area
> (6) Click OK, and you have just changed the catalog definition for 3
> paragraphs in one step.
>
> You can see a brief video demo of this at: http://adobe.ly/18ddZqI
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:
> framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:10 AM
> To: Theresa de Valence
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Word and Frame comparisons
>
> Here's a nice solution for that:
> http://www.elharo.com/blog/word/2005/12/28/word-tip-1-reapplying-styles/
>
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> On 17-Sep-13 6:04 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote:
> > Hi, this is possibly not the right place to ask this question, but ...
> > I have a lot of experience with Frame and very little experience with
> > MS Word.
> >
> > In Frame I can overwrite all paragraph format overrides with a click.
> >
> > Can this be done in Word?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Theresa
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