Hi Steve
Very amusing, but only to those observing. I'm sure we all have similar
horror stories. Mine was a 75-page RFP that Sales said "has to go out
this afternoon". The future of the known universe depended on it. The
sales guy had fiddled, and it had blown up, so he passed it to me. By
about 4.30 pm I had saved the world.
I later found out that Sales used the same RFP document for everything,
just changing the specifics and re-saving it. Who needs templates?
You are right on the money. It's a nightmare scenario. The OP's need for
training versions sounds like just the job for conditional text, or for
attribute filtering if the content is structured.
Roger
On 26/02/2015 11:36 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote:
I do not think I have posted this story to this group before, so, as Word is
being discussed...
This really happened: I was there, I watched.
Long time ago, I worked as a contractor for a small but upwardly mobile
company. At that time the staff occupied a single floor of an office block in
West London, a couple of directors, a secretary and a bunch of very bright and
highly-paid engineers.
One of the senior staff came in with the words 'This memo is urgent: can you
get it out quickly.' (Probably a strategic error, triggering a local
perturbance in the Universal Murphy Field). The secretary set to work typing up
the one-page memo in Word. Something went wrong, she struggled with it, and got
nowhere. So she called over one of the very bright and highly-paid engineers to
help. He struggled with it and got nowhere, so he called over another very
bright and highly-paid engineer. I don't know what they were struggling with,
but the words 'I've never seen it do that before' occurred more than once.
After a while most of the company's technical staff were helping the poor girl
to lash Word into producing this one-page memo. Finally they succeeded, and the
print command was issued. The printer jammed. One of the highly-paid engineers
unjammed the printer. The print command was issued again... and again the
printer jammed. I cannot remember how many times this happened, but I do
distinctly remember that at the very point when the printer was finally coaxed
into life, just as I thought 'Surely, nothing else can go wrong'... the toner
cartridge exploded.
I am not making this up.
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