[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