Re: Basing Word styles on Normal or Body Text?

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Subject: 
             Re: Basing Word styles on Normal or Body Text?
        Date: 
             Wed, 14 May 2003 11:05:09 -0700
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             sales -at- html-indexer -dot- com
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             Brown Inc.
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Sean Hower wrote:
> 
> Normal = Bad
> Well, actually, any predefined styles in Word equals bad for 
> the same reason why Jo Francis Byrd pointed out. There's 
> always some hidden gotchya that will crop up at some point.

Horse feathers!

If you distribute a template to all your writers that *doesn't* define the built-in paragraph styles--specifically Normal, Heading X, TOC X, and Index X--how on earth are you gonna keep the other writers from using those styles, with predictably chaotic results?

That's precisely why you *should* use the built-in styles in your template, name the template something besides Normal.dot, and make sure every writer is using it.

Sheesh.

--David 
 
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