Re: Pictures in Word document

Hi CyberTaz,

Thank you very, very much for the enlightenment!

I have used Word for many years, in Windows as well as with the Mac, but
usually for light and easy material. I truly did not want to become an
expert in publishing and thought it would be easy to do a special
'retirement project'. I will have to rethink my strategy, since I do not
want to give up this project but I also do not want to trouble shoot the
document every so often as has been the case. Granted, since I subdivided
the document into a bunch of subdocs, it has been more consistent, but it
also has been frustrating and time-consuming.

Where could I get advice for some decent publishing software? Any
suggestion? I hate to give up.

Thank you
Rudolf

CyberTaz wrote on 5/12/06 1:52 PM

Pictures in Word documentHello Rudolf -

If you first take a look at:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/PagesInWord.html

You'll better understand what I mean when I suggest that Word may not be the
best program for your purpose. IMHO, you are going to need the features
provided in a page layout/desktop publishing application which simply don't
exist in a word processing program.

You might also be interested in taking a look at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

Especially with a large number of graphics involved, as they have a tendency
to exacerbate the complexity of the doc, increasing the likelihood of
corruption.

I don't mean to be an alarmist, but the plethora of 'features' added to an
excellent word processing program often gives the impression that it does
all those other things equally well. That, unfortunately, isn't the case.
Please don't misunderstand, though, it isn't that the features don't *work*,
nor that graphics cannot be acceptably dealt with. It's just that there is a
very real limit to what can be effectively handled and that what has to be
done almost amounts to a full-time profession in itself.

.

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