Re: "Strict" Word template for end-users?
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.
Yes, I think that's the ticket. Also, it isn't much of a trick in Word to put a couple of alphanumeric characters on a custom button face. With the scantest instructions, those users could find their way around the custom toolbar. In no time at all, they'd be formatting unordered lists with the L button, numbered lists with the L# button, headings with Hx buttons, ...
Upside down and backward, but still doing it right :-)
--Ned
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