On 6/27/2010 3:39 AM, ChattyCathy wrote:
> 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.

I hate it when that happens.

But with Word, if you change the Normal.dot then any document made with
Normal.dot will change accordingly.