Re: Document Library - What type is best for a Procedure Manual?
- From: "Cornelius J. van Dyk [MVP]" <c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:07:02 +0000
Word is the best option, but as you mentioned, you don't want the documents to open in Word. If you had the Office Viewer installed on the user computer and not Office itself, the Word document would be displayed in the browser... of course, almost everyone has office installed anyway right? So my suggestion for a work around would be do author your document in Word 2007. Be sure to install the "Save as PDF" add-in (Thanks a lot Adobe!) found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en
Once completed, simply save your document to the library as a PDF document. PDF's should natively display within the browser thus solving your problem...
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Thanks
C
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"Bryan L" <blinton.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uOpp8ik7GHA.4572@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
We're putting together a comprehensive procedure manual for our business
processes and I'm trying to figure out what type of document I should
standardize on. Each method I've tried has it's problems:
- Word documents provides the full-featured formatting and in-line
screenshot abilities that we want; however, we don't want the manual pages
to open in Word; we'd prefer they simply display within the IE page.
- "Basic Page" does present the content within IE as we'd like, but the
formatting abilities of the Rich Text Editor are very limited.
- Also when using Basic Page: although I've created a New Document template
to use when creating a new procedure page, the "New Basic Page" creation
process seems to ignore my template, instead opening a blank Rich Text
Editor window.
- We could use Word to create the content and simply paste it into the Rich
Text Editor for Basic Page. However, when we want to update the content,
there's a problem. If we edit it within the Rich Text Editor, we're again
limited by what it can do. If we paste the content from the Editor back
into Word, the original Word formatting is gone. It may LOOK like a
Word-formatted document, but try adding an item to a Bullet or Numbered list
and you'll quickly discover it ain't so.
Any ideas? Has anyone else created a document library to store a procedure
manual? If so, what type of document did you settle on?
Thanks,
BJ
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