Re: re Basing Word Styles on Normal or Body Text?

Subject: Re: re Basing Word Styles on Normal or Body Text?
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:05:37 -0700


"Mark L. Levinson" wrote:
>
> > As soon as you get the file back, your
> > own template is applied, and all your styles
> > regain their intended definitions.
>
> Well, yes... but in the meantime your company's
> Stockholm office, to which your boss sent a copy
> of the file, has printed 250 copies on expensive
> paper with a different font that ruins the
> pagination, and the customers are wondering why
> page 3 consists entirely of a one-inch illustration...

That's why you also distribute a template that has the correct style definitions. (I was only assuring that template differences wouldn't hurt the .doc file.)

It doesn't matter what the styles are *named*--you're still gonna have to get the definitions to the other office--so you might as well use built-in styles that provide lots of other benefits, rather than telling people to use BodyText, OurOfficialApprovedNormal, or some other style that they'll promptly forget.

--David

P.S. Would the folks in the Stockholm office really produce
250 copies without spending 10 minutes in Print Preview?
Drat those pesky Swedes...

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