MS Word Question -- about templates

[Dan Goldstein]

Jack Lyon has posted a macro at http://tinyurl.com/y82gaf that
eliminates unused styles.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CapDev Communications
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 2:42 PM
> To: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: Re: MS Word Question -- about templates
> 
> Actually, I've been wanting to ask for some advice that's 
> related to this topic, specifically "best practices" for 
> using the formatting styles in MS Word. *Maybe* we could 
> have a folder in the techwr-l archive on this matter,
> if enough other people are interested.
> 
> I've learned Word OTJ, so to speak, and can make my 
> documents (usually 200-300+ pages) behave reasonably well. 
> I remember reading a post about eliminating unused or 
> unnecessary new styles that Word automatically adds to
> the style list. Sometimes when I open older documents 
> that have not been looked at for many months, the 
> formatting is messed up, probably due to intuitive style 
> changes taking over. (Customers receive PDFs, so this is
> mainly my problem, unless someone else needs the Word 
> file.) I've been thinking that there should be a good 
> protocol for cleaning up the styles before the final 
> version is PDF'd. Perhaps that would prevent the 
> formatting changes when I then open the document at a 
> later date.
> 

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