> Of Peter
> Sent: Saturday, 9 April 2005 6:13 AM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: RE: [OT][AD] MS Word, was Ideas for books on PIC
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> Is there a real life example of a Word document of 200+ pages with
> embedded tables and minimal graphics (like header and footer lines) that
> can be loaded on another system with a different version of Word and
> edited ?
>
> There are at least several dozens of equivalent TeX documents on the
> internet, most of them distributed formatted as ps or pdf, but the
> sources are available.
>
> Peter


Most stuff like that tends to be boring/interesting tech docs.  Have a
rummage around the MS site, bearing in mind not all MS employee know Word!
I've got some MASM v6.11 docs that are nicely done.  There's a 'Word Legal
Users Guide' in there somewhere.

I don't think there's a great deal of difference for 97-2003 Word formats.
I don't know if '97 will open a 2003 doc.  There's a compatibility option in
Word where you can disable later features, ie, setting it to Word 2000 stops
you using Word 2003 specific features that effect the saved file.  Probably
things like SharePoint etc.

About 3 months ago I could had given you some very well done stuff, 1000
page docs etc.  The woman who did those knew her stuff, you could spot later
changes done by others since the formatting didn't match...

Try getting the JAL documentation off Wouters website.  I think the JAL
manual is around 75 pages or so.  It's a got a bit of 'odd' stuff in it but
nothing much.  (Some things manually set to Heading 1 level, which makes
Outline view a bit 'interesting', and manually inserting pages break, rather
than modifying the Heading 1 style to automatically add the page break).

FAiling that, create   your own.  Typing =rand(100,5) will spit out 100
paragraphs with 5 sentences each saying 'The quick brown fox jumps over the
lazy dog'.  Change numbers for less/more text.

Tony

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