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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CapDev Communications
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 2:42 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: MS Word Question -- about templates
>
> Actually, I've been wanting to ask for some advice that's
> related to this topic, specifically "best practices" for
> using the formatting styles in MS Word. *Maybe* we could
> have a folder in the techwr-l archive on this matter,
> if enough other people are interested.
>
> I've learned Word OTJ, so to speak, and can make my
> documents (usually 200-300+ pages) behave reasonably well.
> I remember reading a post about eliminating unused or
> unnecessary new styles that Word automatically adds to
> the style list. Sometimes when I open older documents
> that have not been looked at for many months, the
> formatting is messed up, probably due to intuitive style
> changes taking over. (Customers receive PDFs, so this is
> mainly my problem, unless someone else needs the Word
> file.) I've been thinking that there should be a good
> protocol for cleaning up the styles before the final
> version is PDF'd. Perhaps that would prevent the
> formatting changes when I then open the document at a
> later date.
>
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