[Jezebel]

What are you hoping the TOC will do?

To put it bluntly, you're on a hiding to nothing here. There is just no way
you can distribute a document with convoluted formatting like this, for
editing by general users across an organisation, and expect the document to
survive intact. 'text boxes instead of columns', 'elements which bleed' ...
most users won't have the faintest idea what's going on. They'll just delete
the nonsense and type their text into the body where it belongs.

You can set a document to use only the defined styles; but by the sound of
it, you yourself don't understand styles very well; and presumably your
users are even less informed. And there's nothing you can do to preserve
elements.

Go back to whoever assigned you this task and tell them to think again. This
ain't gonna work.





"AMX" wrote in message
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Hi, Ive been assigned the task of preparing a Word document which
currently
has Text Boxes as opposed to Word Columns and various elements which bleed
off the page.

The doc is for distribution within a company network and should enable the
final users to type/paste into the doc and have the look and feel and text
styles/formatting update automatically.

Ive been told a TOC can do this, but Im really not sure if this is
possible
the way the document currently stands.

Can anyone recommend any tutorials or help?