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If your colleagues choose to use Word's native autonumbering or even
(shudder) manual numbering, there are macros that allow you to re-apply your
LISTNUM and SEQ preferences to their versions.
You can also re-apply the correct styles when you get back your colleagues'
versions.
Document control doesn't mean that you control what other people do with a
document on their own PCs. Document control means that all their versions
are channeled back through you, and you control the final product.
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Turner
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 1:50 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: M$ @ it again!!!
>
> At 12:03 PM -0500 1/28/04, Goldstein, Dan wrote:
> >1. LISTNUM and SEQ allow stable autonumbering during all
> lunar phases.
> >
> >2. Which style instabilities do you need help with?
> >
> >Dan Goldstein
> >
>
> I don't deal with lunatics, so that makes LISTNUM and SEQ
> unavailable. Besides, MOST (99%) users don't know how to use LISTNUM
> or SEQ, I'm not going to train the whole company how to use them, and
> then you have to remember that these are the same people who don't
> understand character and paragraph tags.
>
> The less you have to workaround style instabilities the better, even
> more so with users who will give your x-number of variations on any
> particular style that is in the document.
>
> Scott Turner
>
