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

[Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>]

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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