> In addition, there is also the "possibility of migrating everything from FM to Word" floating around at this particular client. So there is never much point in making a big investment in FM book restructuring.
Argh ... they should re-think this "possibility". While I had been an early FrameMaker user (1988 ... on a Sun 3/50 mono system), I stopped using it circa 1991 or so (although I beta-tested FM 5 in Windows - pre Adobe days - some years after that). In this company (joined in 1996), I used to do everything in Word and it worked pretty well until my documents started exceeding 50 to 60 to 70 pages each. Then, the frustrations of repeat crashes, lost edits, Word's insane attempts to "think" for me and apply formats, etc., just got to me. I switched [back] to FrameMaker for everything larger than 50 pages some years back - version 6.0 as I recall - and have been a much happier person since. :) Now, I still churn out the occasional short document spec in Word - particular if it starts out that way from the technical person who gave me the input. But anything that I *know* is going to be long and/or need proper, consistent formatting, etc., gets done in FrameMaker. Some of the other folks here also use Word and have problems. Our Marketing department tech writer also switched to FrameMaker some time back. The assumption that switching these documents to Word will somehow make the tasks easier, is seriously flawed logic. Z
