Laura...I just ran into this at PGE in their Academy (training dept). I believe they feel that PP converts easily to simulations, which is why they are going forward with that for some courses. I agree with you that it is not the right tool for large courses and not all types of documentation. Good luck convincing the powers at be.
Deborah Riffin Writing for Business 408-206-1423 (cell) 408-249-3623 (office/fax) "Accuracy and Excellence" -----Original Message----- From: laura <la...@lavadome.net> To: framers <framers at lists.frameusers.com> Sent: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 10:20 am Subject: Support needed! Dear all Please tell me I'm not going mad or being unreasonable. Have just come into work to find that the company which acquired us a few months ago wants me to use Powerpoint for creating datasheets instead of InDesign (definite) and "a more flexible tool" (Word) instead of our beloved Framemaker (proposed). I could cry. I am the only tech author in the company of about 100 people and the marketing department used PP for datasheets which they say is "adequate" for the job. This all arose on Friday when someone else needed to edit a version of my ID files when I was on holiday. Now I come in to find: "...For more technical documentation (e.g. product manuals) then I understand the argument for use of a more specialist tool - but even here we can use more flexible tools." Such as????? I have long user guides with masses of conditional text. Just let Word have a shot at that. In fact, they were trying to do just that before I started this job 4 years ago - and it wasn't working. Sorry to clog up the forum with this but I think of you all as friends who feel the same way about FM as I do. How do I persuade them otherwise? In fact, it's just one person really I think I need to convince - not in my office. I can just about cope with datasheets in PP but using anything other than Frame for long user guides is unthinkable. L _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as writing4business at aol.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/writing4business%40aol.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120710/90758ef8/attachment.html>
