Maintaining Format

[jdavey]

We have a 400 page tech manual with tons of formatting: figures, tables with
auto numbering, chapters and paragraph numbering. There are 4 folks on the
team re-writing the document and when we combine the doc, all the formatting
gets jumbled. Is there a way to create a formatting template perhaps and pass
that to all the writers?

 

[Stefan Blom]

You should set up a template with the appropriate paragraph styles and have
all editors use the template. More to the point, if all editors make use of
the same (set of) styles and apply them consistently, the formatting will
straighten itself out as the text is combined into a single document.

For more information on templates in Word, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm. And for
style basics, see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/concepts/styles/index.html.