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From: palmer@gap.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
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Subject: Re: MS Word and the laser printer...
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Date: 15 Aug 90 17:19:07 GMT
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awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:

>In article <1990Aug15.143724.19341@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:

>><FLAME ON (low)>
>>USE THE FLAMING RULER
>><FLAME OFF>

>I assume you are referring to the style sheet popup in the ruler.  I'd 
>forgotten about that one, but it still has the problem of linked style sheets.
>As a matter of fact, I encourage people to use the ruler and in fact, all the 
>visible formatting aids to work on documents.

>In the next couple of months I get to upgrade everyone on my local network to
>Word 4.0b, and I dread the extra power 4.0 gives in the hands of novices.
>I just spent an hour "debugging" a document creating by one of my "seed" 4.0
>workstations.

Here's a suggestion:

Set up a Word preferences with a set of styles appropriate for the things
the people on your network do (e.g. A centered, boldface, 18 point
style named 'Title', an indented normal style named 'paragraph' etc.),
add them to your menus, strip down the full menus to the things
people use (eliminate mail, table of contents, index, etc.),
enable the ruler, and do other things to make life easier.  Then distribute
that preferences file with the program.

Power users will reconfigure things as they want them, but novices 
will be able to write things in 'paragraph' style, for instnace,
without realizing that they are using style sheets.

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