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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word Style Sheets
Message-ID: <1319@aoa.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 90 12:50:18 GMT
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Reply-To: carl@aoa (Carl Witthoft)
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Organization: Adaptive Optics assoc., Cambridge, Ma
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In article <147883@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
[re an ongoing discussion about porting and updating Styles]

>>The bad news:  On the Mac, they aren't really style sheets, but become
>>a part of each separate document.  This loses what I saw as one of the most
>
>One style sheet that is separate from the Document would be a MAJOR 
>improvement to Mac Word.
x
Well, there's no easy solution. I agree that it's a pain in the rear to
update a whole bunch of documents just to change some default style.  
On the other hand, consider the kind of environment I have: my 
company has something like 25 independent Word users on 25 Macs.  Now,
when I want to collect documents from several separate people, I will
of course get a bunch of different Styles.  But if they all are "based
on Normal" (as most are), and all these documents automatically
switched to my personal "Normal", the formatting would go to pieces.  
In this scenario, at least, I'd rather fix the documents carefully and
one by one.


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