RE: "Strict" Word template for end-users?

Subject: RE: "Strict" Word template for end-users?
From: Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com, caitlingannon -at- yahoo -dot- com
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:08:34 +0900

Ned said:
> At the risk of complicating things with rocket surgery, I'd add
> a custom toolbar, with one button per approved style,
> to the stripped-down template.

I don't think that's a complication at all. It sounds as though Caitlin can't rely on her end users to make much of an effort to make things easier. The best solution, therefore, is to make the new template work as much as possible like their old way of using Word. If they're used to using the toolbar buttons to apply formatting, Caitlin can just co-opt the standard buttons to apply her custom styles. For example:
- the Bold button applies a Bold character style
- the Italic button applies an Emphasis character style
- the Bullets button applies a Bullet 1 paragraph style
- the Numbering button applies a List Numbered 1 paragraph style
- the Increase Indent button runs a macro that changes a Body para to Indented 1, an Indented 1 para to Indented 2, a Bullet 1 to Bullet 2, and so on.

Providing a custom toolbar and hiding the standard toolbars won't stop the end users if they're knowledgeable, determined and malicious, but it sounds as though that's not the case--they just want to keep doing things the way they're used to.

Regards

Stuart
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