On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:53:38 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:

> 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.

Again, works the same way in Open Office; if you fiddle with the default
template (and save the changes to it) it is there for future use. However,
if you don't bother to find out how to do that (on either application)
it's a moot point.

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy