RE: MS Word Question -- about templates

Subject: RE: MS Word Question -- about templates
From: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>
To: "Barry Campbell" <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com>, "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:38:20 -0600

Jack Lyon makes much the same point, Barry, in his latest issue of The
Editorium Update, always a great MS Word resource. I don't believe it's
been archived at http://www.editorium.com/ yet, but you might be able to
obtain a copy by signing up the newsletter now if you're not a present
subscriber.

Jim

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Subject: Re: MS Word Question -- about templates

On 1/8/07, Jonathan West <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org> wrote:

> It is hard to make it work, but possible. (It is what I largely do for

> a
> living.) Basically the templates need to be so easy and obvious to use

> that it becomes easier for people to do it right than to do it wrong.
> That means not only creating a coherent set of styles for the template

> but also a set of toolbar buttons & keyboard shortcuts to make it very

> easy & obvious which styles should be used.

Jonathan, have you had a look at Office 2007 yet? From the looks of
things, this kind of customization is going to be difficult to
impossible to accomplish with the new version.

- bc

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