I have a rule for myself: always author with all conditions on and
indicators present. This way I never have to worry about not finding
info, or accidentally deleting a conditioned block of information.

On 11/14/06, Lisa M. Bronson (TCP) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A couple of years ago, I experimented with conditional text. Today, I was
> looking in one of those files for something that I thought really *should*
> be there... but it wasn't. A few moments later, I thought to check if the
> conditions were set for that option. They weren't, and when I turned them
> on, I was able to find what I was looking for.
>
> That seems to me to be a big drawback for using conditional text. Or is
> there something I'm just not seeing, here?

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