Monthly Archive for January, 2008

…so how do you enforce consistency when users won’t cooperate? When they don’t read your cheat-sheet instructions? Retain anything from your training sessions?
You turn into Style Gallery Cop and put your documents into lockdown. “Lockdown” means blocking users from modifying styles and from applying direct formatting to the document.
To do this:
1. Open the Word document [...]

I’ve been dealing with a lot of large Word documents lately (which makes me painfully miss FrameMaker). Large documents with a lot of styles. Multiple contributors. Multiple reviewers.
Document authoring conditions like these can be a real chore for whoever is responsible for editing them and performing final production checks on them. Why? Because of the [...]