Re: Wrestling with MS Templates and Styles

[dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]

Samuel -dot- Beard -at- tdcj -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us wrote:
> 
> ...it's probably a good idea to NOT base a new style
> on any other style, just to be safe.

That would be a shame.  It's really useful to base styles on each other, as long as you plan ahead.

For example, instead of creating a style called Emphasis that's italicized 10-point Times Roman to use in a Normal paragraph that's roman 10-point Times Roman, you create a style called Emphasis that's Normal+italics.  That way, when you decide to switch to Garamond, all you have to do is redefine Normal.

Likewise, instead of defining every aspect of Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on, you base each level on the level above it.  Again, a font change of ripples through all the heading levels with a single change.

It's a good thing.

--David 
 
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