Using or not using styles when composing draft

[srd]

It surprises me that I find not a single MS Word newsgroups that deals
with the composition process, as opposed to focusing on properties of the
final product. Word as a writers' tool seems absent from these newsgroups.

Question: What is the canonical method for altering the format of a
document between drafting and producing a finished product? I know of the
draft font and the use of the Normal and Outline views for drafting. What
if the user prefers a different paragraph style, say single spacing for
drafts (to see as much as possible on the screen) and double for
manuscripts; or maybe the reverse, where the user wants al lot of blank
space in the early draft.

I one accomplished this change by changing the paragraph formatting of
Normal style. But when I started planning the relations among styles and
templates more carefully, the downside of basing everything on Normal
became obvious. So now I have no base style throughout a document. Body
text or a descendent thereto might be the base style for body text, but I
use a different base style for headings, and sometimes still another for
various other elements.

Is there a way to quickly transform the document temporarily. As I think
about it, various possible gimmicks come to mind, but surely people have
already thought this through Could you direct me to that discussion?

 

[Lynn]

Hi - there are some shortcut keys you can use to temporarily change
your document for example to apply double line spacing to whole
document, press Cntl 5 on keypad and then Ctrl 2. This sets the whole
document to double line spacing.

To revert text back to original style formatting, select whole document
and press ctrl z - this puts text back to underlying style formatting.

There are loads of other shortcut keys you can use - in word, click on
Help and type in Shortcut Keys.

Regards