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One thing I would add to Jonathon's suggestions is, as soon as you first
start up Word, look for an autocorrect option called "automatically
create styles from your formatting" and disable it before you open a
single doc file. This annoying "feature," which I first encountered
when we upgraded from Word 2000 to Word 2003, will read the formatting
of any text that
doesn't exactly fit a predefined style and create a new style from it.
If you
open a file created by one of your style-challenged predecessors who
manually formatted Normal text on the fly, you could end up with an
unlimited number of "styles" with names like "12pt," "12pt indented,"
"10pt indented bulleted," etc., etc., ad nauseum. I don't know WHAT
they were smoking when they came up with this one.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:42 PM
Subject: RE: Why not Word97?
>
> Word 97 is still in fairly widespread use. I come across it in about
> 10% of my customer comapnies.
>
> The fundamental file format is the same from Word 97 through Word
> 2003, but with additions to accommodate extra features as you more
> through the versions.
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