[bigjohn]

have a master document, which is a 400 page design report. I am trying to
create sub-documents in order to allow the various subjects to be worked
independently by about 10 engineers, and then recombine them without the
formatting headaches we've seen in the past.

For the Master document, we have determined that the default font is Arial,
12 pt for the Normal style. When viewing and editing the master document,
this is not a problem.

The actual creation of the sub-documents has gone well. They are broken out
into logical pieces.

However, when the sub-documents are created, and the sub-document is opened
as a separate file (not thru the structure of the master document) the font
that appears is Times New Roman. This is a problem because these documents
will be dispersed and edited. When they return, we want to have the
formatting correct. If they are formatted using the TNR, things will likely
be messy when we go to recombine the whole file.

bIs there a way to set the default font that appears in a newly generated
sub-document? /b

I know this can be fixed by manualy setting the default font to Arial thru
the FormatFontDefault pull-down in each sub document. However, the point
of this whole excercise is to define a standard that everyone will use, and
should hopefully 'just happen' without the engineers having to worry about
formats.

I have tried defining the default font in normal.dot, and Arial is the
default font. However, TNR is still the font that appears in a new
sub-document.

Thanks, alternate solutions welcome

[Stefan Blom]

It seems as if the Normal template is not being used when you create
subdocuments in a master document. You will have to modify the font of each
subdocument separately.

More importantly, note that master documents tend to corrupt. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm.

Instead of a master document, you can make use of INCLUDETEXT fields. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfm...ldscontent.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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have a master document, which is a 400 page design report. I am trying to
create sub-documents in order to allow the various subjects to be worked
independently by about 10 engineers, and then recombine them without the
formatting headaches we've seen in the past.

For the Master document, we have determined that the default font is
Arial,
12 pt for the Normal style. When viewing and editing the master document,
this is not a problem.

The actual creation of the sub-documents has gone well. They are broken
out
into logical pieces.

However, when the sub-documents are created, and the sub-document is
opened
as a separate file (not thru the structure of the master document) the
font
that appears is Times New Roman. This is a problem because these
documents
will be dispersed and edited. When they return, we want to have the
formatting correct. If they are formatted using the TNR, things will
likely
be messy when we go to recombine the whole file.

bIs there a way to set the default font that appears in a newly
generated
sub-document? /b

I know this can be fixed by manualy setting the default font to Arial thru
the FormatFontDefault pull-down in each sub document. However, the
point
of this whole excercise is to define a standard that everyone will use,
and
should hopefully 'just happen' without the engineers having to worry about
formats.

I have tried defining the default font in normal.dot, and Arial is the
default font. However, TNR is still the font that appears in a new
sub-document.

Thanks, alternate solutions welcome