I'm moving to Word 2002 from FrameMaker, and I find Word's default paragraph
style names unintuitive. I'm used to choosing my own names for paragraph
styles. I don't know much about Word yet, but I assume I can ignore Word's
default styles, and perhaps I can get rid of them entirely by replacing or
modifying normal.dot. However, I recently also started using PowerPoint 2002,
and in migrating some materials from FrameMaker to PowerPoint via Word, I found
that PowerPoint correctly formatted the material only if it used the default
Word style names. There also seem to be predefined keyboard shortcuts for five
of the default Word styles. These two things suggest that Word's default
paragraph styles are "special" and that trying to avoid them is likely to lead
to trouble down the road.

Should I force myself to live with Word's default styles (or at least default
style names), or would it be equally reasonable to get rid of them and use my
own style names?

Thanks,

Scott