Word and Frame comparisons

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Sadly, no. They don't document their applications anymore.

Scott T.

Lin Sims wrote:
> I recall hearing (about 10 years or so ago, things may have changed),
> that a lot of Microsoft's documentation was written in FrameMaker, not
> Word, because Word couldn't handle what they needed to do. That always
> amused me.
>
> I wonder if it's still the case ...
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Steve Rickaby
> <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk
> <mailto:srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     At 13:41 -0700 25/9/13, Alison Craig wrote:
>
>      >"Word isŠ (long pause), Word isŠ (another long pause). Word is for
>     memos."
>
>     Ok, I cannot resist rising to this...
>
>     Quite a few years ago, I had to prepare some assembly instructions
>     for a mineral ore separator. The client mandated Word, probably
>     because it was the only document preparation program they had ever
>     heard of.
>
>     The version of Word I was using had the interesting property of
>     consigning diagrams that overflowed the page into some Byte World in
>     the Sky: that is, as added text caused them to flow off the end of
>     the current page, they failed to appear on the following page.
>
>     I had (gasp) paid support for this version of Word, so I rang
>     Microsoft and explained the issue. After a long pause, the M$
>     support person said - and I am not making this up - "It sounds as if
>     you are trying to do something that is too complex for Word [yeah,
>     like words and pictures?] - have you thought of using FrameMaker?"
>
>     --
>     Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]
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