Re: Word styles that refuse to be modified or deleted andwon'tfreakin' go away

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Haven't had any problems in this respect, but I 
don't use the Word outline view.  If that is a
necessity, then I would "cheat" my other point 
by letting the company heading style remain 
"based on" the built-in Word heading, and 
accept the risk that someone tinkering with
their NORMAL template may bollux up the
headings (since all documents by engineers
and other non-writers pass through me for
format review prior to release, this is a relatively
minor risk).

We just use the built-in Word styles for TOCs
footnotes, etc., and don't reinvent the wheel
when we don't have to.

Yes, changes to Word's NORMAL.DOT template
should not affect style tags with the same name
in a different template attached to a document.
Except that my experience is, they do.  On a
semi-regular basis, I am asked to investigate
why an engineer's Word seat causes a doc file
that was prepared in our company template to
display incorrectly, and in almost every case, 
the fix is to delete the engineer's NORMAL.DOT
file and restart Word.  YMMV.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>

> I would recommend you use the built-in heading styles, so that
> you can manipulate the document in Outline view.

> You are confusing the Normal style with the Normal.dot template. When
> you create a separate template, all the styles defined within it are
> self-contained within the template.

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