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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Jan 23, 2015 8:40AM

Logan, in my opinion, Pratik's approach is on target: Make "Report to XYZ Committee" a distinct style.

Subtitle might work. Whether it does depends on what the various titles are like—do they ever have subtitles of their own?

But I'll add this wrinkle: "Report to XYZ Committee" belongs in the metadata. If you can use one of the fields that Word lets you embed into the body of the document (so that editing it in either location also updates the other), all the better.

I'd have to open Word to see which field would work best, and I'm away from the computer just now. But I'm sure you can find a good candidate.

Best to you,
Cliff

Cliff Tyllick

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> On Jan 19, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Lynn Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I'd go with Pratik's suggestion: pretty the top title up using styles,
> and still have the specific subject as the H1. One concern would be
> whether the more specific heading still makes it clear, in search
> results and such, that this is a Report to XYZ Committee.
>
>> On 19/01/2015, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Hi Logan,
>>
>> Makes it tougher, but then I would suggest doubling the info, if you can
>> (putting subject in the subject line and title). If not, then geez that is
>> a tough one. I would do title as H1 and subject as H2.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Lisa
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Trafford, Logan < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I wish it were that simple. Unfortunately due to reasons that are far too
>>> complex to attempt to explain (political more than anything), the order of
>>> appearance (of existing text) cannot change.
>>>
>>>
>>>