Re: QUESTION: Inherited ugly Word 7.0 documents

["Martin, Chuck" <chuckm -at- EVOLVESOFTWARE -dot- COM>]

On Friday, November 21, 1997 3:51 PM, Cheryle Wiese
[SMTP:cjwiese -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM] wrote:
> I'm posting this query for a co-worker who doesn't suscribe, and
doesn't
> have Net access right now. I don't have a definitive answer to her
> question, so I told her I'd pose it to the experts. :)
>
> Here's the deal:
>
> She's got a 75 page Word doc that was e-mailed to her as a .dot file.
In
> order to launch it, she disabled the macros, and saved it on her hard
> drive as a .doc file.
>
> The problem is, this manual is UGLY.  She wants to go through and
apply
> styles to the manual while she's editing it.  But she's not sure of
the
> best/quickest way to do this.
>
> Any suggestions for working with ugly, hand-me-down docs?
>
If the doc uses styles, then do a search and replach for styles. If it
doesn't use styles, then there really isn't a good automatic way. One
way that will make the job easier: assign easy-to-use and
easy-to-remember keystrokes to styles (I like Alt-1 for heading 1, Alt-2
for heading 2, Alt-B for Body, and so on). It makes applying styles a
lot quicker as you page through.

It get sent as a .DOT file? <sigh>

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