Speakers
Doug Gorman
CEO, Simply XML, LLC.Start
October 11, 2017 - 2:00 PM
End
October 11, 2017 - 3:00 PM
Taming the Beast that is Microsoft Word™ to Improve Consistency, Content Reuse, and Multi-Channel Publishing
We hear the following all the time:
- Enterprise authors will need to adopt the XML authoring tools that are both admired and used in Tech Pubs
- You can’t get high quality content from MS Word
- Organizations with MS Word-based authors are stuck in macro-based tools like FS Pro™, DocuTools™, PDF, or InDesign.
- It was expensive to adopt an XML-based architecture for Technical Publications and we can’t afford to bring that initiative to the enterprise.
The truth is that almost a billion authors use MS Word. And it is even estimated that more than 50% of Technical Publication authors use MS Word. The mission of Simply XML and Content Mapper has been to get control of MS Word to produce valid content for an enterprise XML-based content architecture with supporting technology.
This demonstration will use the Content Mapper authoring tool to show:
- How a plug-in to MS Word can take full control of the Word UI
- How the author can see an MS Word UI while the repository sees XML
- How to easily adopt Topic-based writing
- How styled MS Word content can be easily transformed and saved as XML, even DITA
- How reuse can be implemented with starter templates, fragments, tables, images and content references.
- How to assemble Topics into larger documents
- How XML Content created in Word can be published to any format using the Publication Wizard, DITA Open Toolkit, or ad-in publishing facilities like Miramo PDF.
- How to apply metadata at the level of Topics or sections to enable search
- How to easily apply conditional publishing to larger documents so that readers get only content that is relevant.
- More.
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