On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:34:41 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:
>
> The big thing with Word is the style sheets, which, if you know how to
> use them, are wonderful and if you don't then you struggle with it.
> That's one of the things that makes it popular with the corporate
> types--the marketing weenies can define a style sheet, the IT department
> can promulgate it, and everybody's letters have the corporate "look". If
> they decide to change the "look" they just change the style sheet.

Well, the Open Office Word Processor has templates/styles sheets too. And
I use them - often. And yes, it's a nifty feature...

However, in the corporate environment, getting users to make use of said
templates/style sheets every time they create a new document is often
easier said than done; trust me I know. Most users make use of a
template/style sheet - once - and from then on they just keep using the
"Save as..." option from the initial Word document they created to create
the next one - and so on. Of course, that works fine 99% of the time, but
I distinctly remember having to help a user recover a (MS) Word document
at 10pm one night because he'd done that one time too many and the (60-odd
page) document he was working on had become "corrupted" - i.e. when he
tried to print it, it bombed Word out completely.

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy