RE: Basing Word styles on Normal or Body Text?

["David Chinell" <dchinell -at- msn -dot- com>]

Gang:

One obvious "gotcha" with using Normal can be seen in Word
97 and 2000. I don't know about XP, because I haven't got
it.

If you define your Normal to have, say 6 points space above,
you'll have a difficult time reading the content of the Mark
Index Entry dialog box, because, for some reason, it uses
that definition when displaying the Main entry. That's the
kind of problem experts are trying to help you avoid.

Re base para styles, I recommend using three:

H0 - Heading para
B0 - Body text para (serif)
D0 - Display text para (sans serif)

These are the bases for the various styles shown below. By
changing these, plus the character styles RH and YN you can
completely transform the content of your docs.

H0 - Heading base
  HT - Heading, title
  HC - Heading, chapter
  H1 - Heading, topic
  H2 - Heading 2
  H3 - Heading 3
  IH - Index heading
  SH - Step heading

Normal

B0 - Body base
  BT - Body text
  LB - List, bulleted
  LG - List, glossary
  LN - List, numbered
  RC - Run-in caution
  RN - Run-in note
  RW - Run-in warning
  SA - Step action

D0 - Display (sans serif) text
  FC - Figure column
  CC - Caption column
  FT - Figure text
  CT - Caption text
  FN - Figure inline
  Footer
  Header
  I1 - Index 1
  I2 - Index 2
  XE - Index entry
  MK - Markup
  TT - Table title
  TH - Table heading
  TC - Table cell
  TOC1
  TOC2

RH - Run-in head (character)
YN - System voice (character)

Bear


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