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John

At 09:54 AM 4/30/1998 -0400, you wrote:

>Yes we are going to have a Tech Writer.  We are considering using MS
>Word but EVERY time I use a M$ product to do a large job it seems to
>crap out on something.  We are anticipating several volumes in the
>300-500 range. and would like the table of contents, footnotes etc to
>work.  What size documents are you able to produce and are you using the
>table of contents function?

I don't know specifically what our writer is doing. She does produce user
guides in the size range you mention.

I've used TOC in my own work, with Word 95. It's pretty good. It
automatically pulls in Heading 1-9 styles, and you can set other entries as
needed.

I agree that large projects can crap out fast. I strongly suggest _not_
using master documents—unless it actually works in Word 97!

I'm now using Corel's WordPerfect 8 at home—came bundled with my newest
machine. It's quite good, although not M$. It does, however, understand
Word 97 docs. Might be worth a look. Has lots of HTML stuff builtin. Its
macro facility is a lot harder to write to, though. Word's uses functions
with names based on menu options a lot. WP's functions have no obvious
relationship to the menu options (But I could be wrong).

There aren't many options in word processing anymore—these are about it,
except for Lotus' AMI-successor, of which I know nothing anymore.

HTH

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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