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Do styles help with drafting? (Reposted from word.general, as this location seems more suitable)
It surprises me that I find not a single MS Word newsgroup oriented toward
the composition process. Question: What is the canonical method for altering the format of a document between drafting and producing a finished document? I know about the Draft font option and the Normal and Outline views. What if the user prefers a different paragraph style, say single spacing for drafts (to see as much as possible on the screen) and double for manuscripts; or maybe the reverse, where the user wants al lot of blank space in the early draft. I one accomplished this through a base Normal style. When I started planning the relations among styles and templates, the downside of basing everything on Normal became obvious. So now I have no base style throughout a document. 'Body text' or a descendent thereto might be the base text style; 'Heading 2' the base title, subtitle, heading, and subheading style. I usually have at least one other base style in a document besides those. Changing base styles would be excessively inconvenient. Having a Draft style would be the solution, except you want to avoid reapplying the manuscript styles. A draft template might be the answer, but I have never used templates to that end. I invoke a template at the time of the document's inception. I don't know if you can modify a document by applying a template after the fact and then removing the template or reapplying the original template, getting the original document back. -- Stephen R. Diamond |
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