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Keith Cronin wrote:
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> I suggest that you provide a new template for them to use on all NEW
> documents. That creates sort of a "that was then, this is now" cutoff,
> whereby all new docs will be written using your new templates, and
> all old docs will be left as-is.
Keith's suggestion makes sense, IF your co-workers create NEW documents.
The work process I see most often is, if somewant needs to produce a
document, he or she grabs one that looks suitable to their needs and plugs
in new content (copy/paste or type over). The result is not, in any way,
a modification or update of the legacy document, but it retains all the
design elements of the legacy document. Sigh.
Jim Shaeffer (jims -at- spsi -dot- com)
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