Question about book not keeping to Writing dept. style guide

["Caroline Tabach" <caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Our writing dept has a style guide made over the years by our managers
and added to by various writers  (i.e. although I do not have specific
sources to say why one usage is better than another, this is how all
our books are written).

When I was on maternity leave one of the user guides was outsourced
and while they did use our FrameMaker template, they did not use our
style guide.
As a result many things appear differently in this guide than in our
other guides.
This guide is not a "one-off" guide but for a product being updated.

The types of things that are different here are:
*a different table style is used
*There are table titles (which we do not have in our other guides)
*A lot of quotations marks are used while our style guide calls for
using italics instead of quotation marks as much as possible.
*The way tables, and dialog boxe are introduced is different.

Except for the quotation marks Vs italics I do not think anything here
is wrong usage, but they just make this book different from all of our
other books.

The question is, should I ask one of the writers here to go through
the book and make the appropriate changes so it conforms to our style
guide. I am hesitant because quite a lot of work is involved
especially replacing all of the quotation marks used.

Thanks

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Caroline Tabach
e-mail: caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com
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