"Strict" Word template for end-users?

[Ned Bedinger]

Stuart Burnfield wrote:
> 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. 
 
Yes, I think that's the ticket.  Also, it isn't much of a trick in Word 
to put a couple of alphanumeric characters on a custom button face.  
With the scantest instructions, those users could find their way around 
the custom toolbar.  In no time at all, they'd be formatting unordered 
lists with the L button, numbered lists with the L# button, headings 
with Hx buttons, ...
 
Upside down and backward, but still doing it right :-)

--Ned