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Creating an Updated Document IBM Style?
I don't think Word does this but I thought I'd pose the question anyway.
Suppose one creates a document and it is page numbered. At some point, one wants to update the manual. Let's say put in a new page after #14. Instead of producing a doc renumbered, why not produce a page sequence like: ..., 14, 14a, 15. IBM did this with their manuals many years ago. Maybe they still do. The beauty of this is that one only needs to put one new page in the document, and not reprint the entire document. Of course the TOC or index may need a similar adjustment. It sure would save reprinting manuals. -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person over a lifetime: Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars -- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ |
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Creating an Updated Document IBM Style?
For a very good reason ($1,300,000,000.00) why you should not use that
method, see: http://www.ag.gov.au/ema/emadisaster...b!OpenDocument -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I don't think Word does this but I thought I'd pose the question anyway. Suppose one creates a document and it is page numbered. At some point, one wants to update the manual. Let's say put in a new page after #14. Instead of producing a doc renumbered, why not produce a page sequence like: ..., 14, 14a, 15. IBM did this with their manuals many years ago. Maybe they still do. The beauty of this is that one only needs to put one new page in the document, and not reprint the entire document. Of course the TOC or index may need a similar adjustment. It sure would save reprinting manuals. -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person over a lifetime: Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars -- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ |
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Creating an Updated Document IBM Style?
Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
For a very good reason ($1,300,000,000.00) why you should not use that method, see: http://www.ag.gov.au/ema/emadisaster...b!OpenDocument Perhaps you could distill the essence of that long page? -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person over a lifetime: Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars -- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ |
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Creating an Updated Document IBM Style?
The cause of the accident was, at least in a very great part, attributable
to the failure of the company to keep manuals up to date with updates that were produced in the manner that you are suggesting. The cost of reprinting and re-issuing complete manuals would have been an infinitesimal fraction of the $1,300,000,000.00 that is reported to have been the Commercial/Industry Cost of the accident. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: For a very good reason ($1,300,000,000.00) why you should not use that method, see: http://www.ag.gov.au/ema/emadisaster...b!OpenDocument Perhaps you could distill the essence of that long page? -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person over a lifetime: Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars -- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ |
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Creating an Updated Document IBM Style?
There is no 'simple' way to do this. My suggestion would be to edit the
document as normal. Then extract page 14 and the new additional page (currently 15) and in a new document, manually number them Page 14 and 14a. Issue those two pages as an amendment with an amendment slip to insert. But eventually, it will be necessary to reissue the whole document giving it a new Revision number. The 'correct' document could be made available on the company intranet for anyone needing to see it. Terry wrote in message ... I don't think Word does this but I thought I'd pose the question anyway. Suppose one creates a document and it is page numbered. At some point, one wants to update the manual. Let's say put in a new page after #14. Instead of producing a doc renumbered, why not produce a page sequence like: ..., 14, 14a, 15. IBM did this with their manuals many years ago. Maybe they still do. The beauty of this is that one only needs to put one new page in the document, and not reprint the entire document. Of course the TOC or index may need a similar adjustment. It sure would save reprinting manuals. -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person over a lifetime: Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars -- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ |
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Creating an Updated Document IBM Style?
Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
The cause of the accident was, at least in a very great part, attributable to the failure of the company to keep manuals up to date with updates that were produced in the manner that you are suggesting. The cost of reprinting and re-issuing complete manuals would have been an infinitesimal fraction of the $1,300,000,000.00 that is reported to have been the Commercial/Industry Cost of the accident. So for decades IBM manuals were in danger of causing a catastrophe? Sounds like BS to me. Where in the page does this claim appear? -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person over a lifetime: Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars -- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ |
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Creating an Updated Document IBM Style?
Read the Report of the Royal Commission.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: The cause of the accident was, at least in a very great part, attributable to the failure of the company to keep manuals up to date with updates that were produced in the manner that you are suggesting. The cost of reprinting and re-issuing complete manuals would have been an infinitesimal fraction of the $1,300,000,000.00 that is reported to have been the Commercial/Industry Cost of the accident. So for decades IBM manuals were in danger of causing a catastrophe? Sounds like BS to me. Where in the page does this claim appear? -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person over a lifetime: Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars -- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ |
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