Now I understand!
Mar. 26th, 2007 10:41 amWell, I finally figured out one reason why I haven't yet finished an editing project that I took on last year. It's impossible, that's why!
Of course it's not impossible, but it really is a pain trying to do a proper editing job of a manual that looks like it was stuck together by a committee using scissors and cut up pieces of paper. It's full of unexplainable shifts in font and formatting, and references to documents that I have to go find to be sure the page numbers are accurate. There is a section that contains graphics which is totally hopeless -- I can't seem to get Word to show me all the pictures it says are in there, and I can't seem to change the formatting to make sense of the section.
My solution? Edit the text and leave it to someone else to fix the graphics. I know when I'm beat. ;-) That doesn't solve all my problems, but it helps. I am determined to finish this today, though, because the feeling of having it finally out of my hair will wonderful. I'm done with procrastinating.
Hopefully it won't take all day, as I have other things I would dearly love to be doing. Maybe I'll be able to work better if I have a wee coffee break...
;-)
ETA: Finished and mailed! Now I just need to wait and see if it passes muster.
Of course it's not impossible, but it really is a pain trying to do a proper editing job of a manual that looks like it was stuck together by a committee using scissors and cut up pieces of paper. It's full of unexplainable shifts in font and formatting, and references to documents that I have to go find to be sure the page numbers are accurate. There is a section that contains graphics which is totally hopeless -- I can't seem to get Word to show me all the pictures it says are in there, and I can't seem to change the formatting to make sense of the section.
My solution? Edit the text and leave it to someone else to fix the graphics. I know when I'm beat. ;-) That doesn't solve all my problems, but it helps. I am determined to finish this today, though, because the feeling of having it finally out of my hair will wonderful. I'm done with procrastinating.
Hopefully it won't take all day, as I have other things I would dearly love to be doing. Maybe I'll be able to work better if I have a wee coffee break...
;-)
ETA: Finished and mailed! Now I just need to wait and see if it passes muster.