Re: re Basing Word Styles on Normal or Body Text?

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

"Mark L. Levinson" wrote:
> 
> > As soon as you get the file back, your
> > own template is applied, and all your styles
> > regain their intended definitions.
> 
> Well, yes... but in the meantime your company's
> Stockholm office, to which your boss sent a copy
> of the file, has printed 250 copies on expensive
> paper with a different font that ruins the
> pagination, and the customers are wondering why
> page 3 consists entirely of a one-inch illustration...

That's why you also distribute a template that has the correct style definitions.  (I was only assuring that template differences wouldn't hurt the .doc file.)

It doesn't matter what the styles are *named*--you're still gonna have to get the definitions to the other office--so you might as well use built-in styles that provide lots of other benefits, rather than telling people to use BodyText, OurOfficialApprovedNormal, or some other style that they'll promptly forget.

--David 

P.S.  Would the folks in the Stockholm office really produce
      250 copies without spending 10 minutes in Print Preview?
      Drat those pesky Swedes...
 
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