RE: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project?

[linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com]

Kevin, who is having major Word woes, wrote on 12/07/2007 02:32:08 PM:

> Is there a way, if you've already got docs with everything based on
> Normal, to swap for some other home-baked style?
> I've been avoiding it because there's really never a good time to run a
> 300-page document through a plain text editor and then bring it into
> Word for from-scratch application of all formatting.
> But if I could keep my dozens of existing styles and simply tell them
> that they are now based on .... "notnormal" style instead of on
> "Normal", that would be a good thing.

Try Editorium's MegaReplacer add-in for Word. Lots of the power users on 
the Word-PC list swear by it (instead of at it, which is a Good Thing in 
my book).

http://www.editorium.com/14843.htm



Lin Sims
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