Re: Modify Word's Default Styles - do your changes stick?

["Marianne Adams" <marjaone -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Karen,

In order for any changes you make to styles in a document to stick, you do 
have to make sure that your customers have and install a custom template 
containing them (and even then some things, particularly involving bullets 
and numbers, can go awry).  The risk is that this is not usually an 
intuitive thing for people to do, and you'll have to provide very specific 
instructions for installing the template - it's not as easy as it looks, 
since network installations and newer operating systems will sometimes put 
user templates in different places than you'd expect.

As you surmised, any extra menus, macros, and so forth, MUST be recorded in 
the template for the document, whether it's normal.dot or a custom template, 
and that template must be available on any computer that needs to display 
the document.

Somewhere along the way, I've written some instructions for figuring out 
where the templates on a particular computer need to go.  If you'd like to 
e-mail me off-list, I'll try to find them and send them to you.

Marianne