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Subject: Fwd: [ISTC_D] Re: Book about gaining expertise in Word 2007?
Interesting comments concerning Word 2007. Possible anecdotal support for 'DITA for Standards'? Certainly useful for SWOT Analyses. David Begin forwarded message: > From: Lionel Browne <lionel.browne@sfep.net> > Date: 13 November 2008 12:13:29 GMT > To: ISTC_Discussion@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [ISTC_D] Re: Book about gaining expertise in Word 2007? > Reply-To: ISTC_Discussion@yahoogroups.com > > In message > <9AEC5F50BD7E0F48891AE45ADC56118402BA8006@ldnukms2.caplin.com>, John > Evans <john.evans@caplin.com> writes >> Therein lies the problem with Word. It has grown and grown and grown >> over the years and now Microsoft have lost the plot. They just don't >> know where to position it any more. > > And it has become of decreasing use to those of us who have to use > it as > a working tool. Consider, for example, the following, from _European > Science Editing_, Vol. 33 (3), August 2007, p 87: > > Manuscripts and revisions submitted in the latest Microsoft format, > Word > 2007, are being returned by many scholarly publishers because they are > incompatible with their publishing systems. Top ranking science > journals, including Science and Nature, have revised their guidelines, > asking authors not to use the format because the equation editor in > Word > 2007 is non-standard. Saving files in a previous Word format converts > equations into non-editable graphics. Science suggests using the > MathType equation editor or the editors that are included in previous > versions of Word, accessed from Insert Object in the Insert menu. > > See > www.sciencemag.org/about/authors/prep/docx.dtl > www.nature.com/nature/authors/submissions/template/index.html > > Lionel > -- > Lionel Browne MA MISTC; Advanced Member, Society for Editors and > Proofreaders; > Member, European Association of Science Editors <lionel.browne@sfep.net > > > Sandhurst Editorial, 36 Albion Road, Sandhurst, Berkshire GU47 9BP > Tel: 01252 877645 Fax: 01252 890508 Mobile: 07780 663142
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