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Subject:Re: Changing Normal.dot in Word From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:31:57 -0800
Does your management understand that customizing normal.dot isn't going to do
diddly about users writing entire documents in the "normal" style with manual
formatting?
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Suzette Leeming" <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com>
> I personally don't like the idea of customizing normal.dot because of the
> potential to corrupt it, plus the fact that clients receiving the document
> will have a different normal.dot. But, just having templates doesn't seem to
> be doing the trick either. You can develop all the styles you want, but
> people are basically lazy, and just format on the fly and ignore the styles.
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