Agreed.

The easiest way, IMHO of working with EAD for several years at the Archives
Hub (http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk), would be to set up a set of EAD
templates and then cut and paste the text into them from Word.

Rob

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Oct 7, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Nathan Tallman wrote:
>
> > Chances are you would have to reformat all your finding aids to
> > the new format, which may be as time consuming as hand coding....
> >
> > ...If faced with these two options, I would opt for hand coding.  You
> will
> > learn so much more about EAD and it's potential.  If you totally rely on
> the
> > macro converter, your limited to what the macros are built to do.
>
> I concur.
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
> University of Notre Dame
>