Thanks, Robert,

Dang it! This is a document citing various legal issues and is
published in print yearly. Unfortunately, the example I gave isn't an
exaggeration. In Quark and InDesign, stacking is possible. Adding a
Bold to an Italic doesn't have the bold overwrite the italic style.
I'd use these applications but this document has about 1000 endnotes
(also not an exaggeration) and neither app. handles endnotes.

Do you have any other suggestions that might make this easier for the
user to do his edits? I want to force styles because this document
will soon be published on a website. By limiting the styles, I can get
a clean conversion.

Your comments are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Philippa

On Jul 17, 2:36 pm, "Robert M. Franz (RMF)"
wrote:
Hello Ratcliff

Ratcliff wrote:
This is a cross post from Docmanagement group.

well, technically it's more like a new post, but I know what you mean
(and thanks for mentioning it!).

I am attempting to create a template with a certain set of styles for
a book (900+ pages) and I want to use the protect document feature to
disallow the introduction of unintentional styles.

Am I missing something or do I really have to create a style for every
tiny thing? For example, I have one for Character Bold, Character
Italic, Character Bold Italic, Character Underline, Character Bold
Underline, Character Italic Underline, Character Bold Italic
Underline ... and on and on and on....

No, I don't think you're missing a thing. There can only be one
Character Style in place in Word.

[Unless your example is exaggerated, this "feature" of Word might be a
good opportunity to revise your various formatting needs: in general,
users tend to mix too many different means to accentuate. "Underline",
for instance, is something you might want to forget entirely (it's
pretty much from the typewriter area; with different font sizes and
weights for headings, and bold and/or italic, you should not need it at
all; and Word doesn't do it any good from a typographical POV, anyway).

HTH
Robert
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