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:
"Word is... (long pause), Word is... (another long pause). Word is for memos." Alison Alison Craig | Technical Documentation Lead Ultrasonix | 130-4311 Viking Way | Richmond, BC V6V 2K9 | analogicultrasound.com<http://www.analogicultrasound.com> T 604-279-8550 ext 127 | F 604-279-8559 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Corinne Kenney Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Word and Frame comparisons You are probably right. And when people say "everybody knows Word," I tend to give this reply: The "good" thing about Word is that you can just open it up and start typing. The bad thing about Word is that -- you can just open it up and start typing. Corinne Kenney Sr. Technical Editor/Writer Raytheon Company From: Ken Poshedly <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: Alastair Dent <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Maxwell Hoffmann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Shmuel Wolfson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Theresa de Valence <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 7:04 AM Subject: Re: Word and Frame comparisons 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.) From: Alastair Dent <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: Maxwell Hoffmann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Shmuel Wolfson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Theresa de Valence <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Maxwell Hoffmann Sent: 19 September 2013 18:19 To: Shmuel Wolfson; Theresa de Valence Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 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 Maxwell Hoffmann | Product Evangelist | Adobe | p. 503.336.5952 | c. 503.805.3719 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://twitter.com/maxwellhoffmann - http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellhoffmann%C2%A0 blogs.adobe.com/techcomm<http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm> Upcoming webinars http://adobe.ly/Pbz6xI Recorded webinars: http://adobe.ly/Pbdp0J -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:10 AM To: Theresa de Valence Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 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/ 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 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. 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