RE: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project?

[claireconant -at- comcast -dot- net (Claire Conant)]

If I recall correctly - and it's been a while since I've tried - I think you can do a search and replace of styles. It's an advanced setting, but if you navigate around you can find it. Maybe newer versions of Word don't have it. Not sure. 

Claire

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From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> 

> On Behalf Of Claire Conant said: 
> > I learned a long time ago never to 
> > use Normal style for anything. everyone has Normal set differently on 
> > their computer and if someone opens your doc on a different computer, 
> it 
> > will not look for them how it looked for you. 
> 
> [...] 
> > My recommendation is never, ever use the Normal style, never select 
> > automatically update (as Geoff recommended) and never base a style on 
> > Normal in the style catalog. 
> 
> Is there a way, if you've already got docs with everything based on 
> Normal, to swap for some other home-baked style? 
> I've been avoiding it because there's really never a good time to run a 
> 300-page document through a plain text editor and then bring it into 
> Word for from-scratch application of all formatting. 
> But if I could keep my dozens of existing styles and simply tell them 
> that they are now based on .... "notnormal" style instead of on 
> "Normal", that would be a good thing. 
> 
> > And, it's good your company is getting FrameMaker 8. I wholeheartedly 
> > support that. 
> 
> I've got FM 7 but I've only got 2 docs that I can still update in Frame. 
> The rest are WebHelp (done in Flare) or else docs that need to pass 
> through other hands than mine... so they're done in Word. (Well, I tell 
> them that it's Word, though I do some of them in OpenOffice... :-) ) 
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