Hi. I am planning a new custom document template for a client. I won't be
modifying the Normal template on the client's machines, and, as it turns out,
different machines may have Normal templates that vary from each other.

What I'm not sure about is how custom template and the Normal template
interact, e.g. if they are merged as CSS is, or if a custom template becomes
the exclusive source of styles.

For example, if I don't define style "Normal" in the custom template, is the
style version from the Normal template used?

Right now, my plans are that the custom template will have a variety of new
styles, plus changes to the Heading styles and the TOC styles, but no changes
to the Normal style.

TIA
Patrick