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Subject:Re: NORMAL vs BODY styles From:Joy Brady-Beer <joy_m_brady -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 25 May 2001 08:47:24 -0700 (PDT)
--- Peter Kleczka <pkleczka -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Why have a normal *and* a body. Why not just
> body?
>
One quote from this article (another Word MVP
article!) by Suzanne Barnhill: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/NormalVsBodyStyles.htm
"Normal is the style on which all others (unless you
change this) are based. If you change the font or
paragraph formatting of Normal style, it will have a
ripple effect throughout most of the other document
styles. That's why it's more satisfactory when
creating a document of a structured, permanent nature
(as opposed to a quickie to be printed and discarded)
to use other styles intended for specific purposes."
=====
Joy Beer
Technical Writer
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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