Re: Information Mapping and Word

[JONG -at- LIGHTBRIDGE -dot- COM]

I have had some experience working with document styles, formats, and templates
in Interleaf and now Word. To set up a document style that features margin
labels, it seems simplest to define the page as having a wide left margin (say,
2.25 in or more).  If you turn on "text boundaries" in Word, you will see the
text constrained from entering the left margin area.  Now you can define a
"label" style that includes a frame with a negative indent of, again, 2.25 in
or more.  It seems to work fine for me!  (In truth, I haven't invented this --
I've seen it elsewhere, and the Word documentation gives an example of it.)

Note that if you implement labels this way, and you also want level heads to
stick into the margin (as I do), you will not be able to take advantage of
automatic head numbering, because that feature changes the format of heads so
they can't stick into the margin (have a negative indent).  This is
unfortunate, because automatic head numbering is the easiest way (though
fortunately not the only way) to get chapter-page references into the footer,
cross-references, index, and table of contents.  I need that format, but I
found that I had to change the style back for every one of the headings after I
turned on numbering, and it was such a pain I quickly abandoned it.  (If I'm
wrong, let me know fast!  I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too 8^)

  -- Steve

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