Re: How many levels of indents and heads are reasonable?

["Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>]

On 09/10/2007, Van Laan, Krista <KVanlaan -at- verisign -dot- com> wrote:
> Are there any guidelines anywhere for what is a reasonable number of
> headers and indents?
>

Word MVP John Nurick once responded (only slightly tongue-in-cheek) in
the Word newsgroups to a similar question as follows:

"In my experience, writers who believe they need more than 6 levels of
headings usually need counselling, sometimes even psychiatric
treatment (I usually prescribe proseroxatimephinine lithioid
oxaloacetatate 40mg/day, but YMMV).

In any case, scientific research (Goldblatt & Heyhoe, 1968) shows that
university-educated readers exposed to documents with more than 7
levels of headings for more than 37 minutes per day over a five-week
period experience lasting depression of actinic activity in the
antihypothalamiserotinic syntagmic nexus."



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