Re: Redefining the "Normal" style is MS Word

Subject: Re: Redefining the "Normal" style is MS Word
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:55:15 -0700


This thread reminds me of the fact that MS Word users take the fact that
templates can be modified directly from a normal document for granted.

So did I, once. It was only when I started using OpenOffice.org that I fully
appreciated what an illogical and ill-advised idea that is. A template should
set the format for a document, not the other way around, and you risk
corruption and unexpected reformatting of documents the MS Word way. By
contrast, OOo doesn't allow this behavior. As a result, it eliminates a whole
range of problems.

It seems to me that MS Word would be much more usable if the option not to
modify templates from a document was simply removed. Failing that, I suppose
that the best thing that can be done is to try to educate users not to use the
option.

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