<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
<br>I wonder if it's still the case ...<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Steve Rickaby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:srickaby@wordmongers.demon.co.uk" target="_blank">srickaby@wordmongers.demon.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">At 13:41 -0700 25/9/13, Alison Craig wrote:<br>
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>"Word isŠ (long pause), Word isŠ (another long pause). Word is for memos."<br>
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Ok, I cannot resist rising to this...<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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?"<br>
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--<br>
Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]<br>
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