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From: L Snider
Date: Aug 14, 2016 1:52PM

Hi Jim,

The issue that I was musing about was in the letter, where if you are lucky
you have a 'RE' section, which could be given a heading (and rarely do you
have a company name up top to give a heading to)... If you don't even have
the 'RE:' then the address could be styled, but there would be no other
headings as letters don't usually have sections. That is the issue I have
been working on the most, and I am wondering what others do with letters
that don't have anything major to make into a heading.

Contracts are different, because they usually have good things to use
headings on-except at the top where you have the 'X and X go into a
contract'. That is way too long usually for an H1, and with legal you can't
change the way it is structured.

I wish they were more like reports, but almost always they aren't!

Cheers

Lisa



On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Lisa,
> FFor the sake of argument, let me assume Microsoft Word.
>
> The title of the document would use the Title style.
>
> I would then apply headings using the Heading 1 style for each major
> section, and then use Heading 2 through the necessary level of heading
> style. If you think the document will ever be converted to the web, avoid
> levels 7 and higher.
>
> Once you have the headings in place, go back through and use the
> multi-level list, rather than typing in the numbers by hand. Word has
> numbering schemes for various document types.
>
> Then, if your document requires a table of contents, put your curser where
> you want it to go, right click or SHIfT+F10, and choose the automatic table
> of contents entry.
>
> For the addressing part of the letter, I think there is the Address style,
> but I'd have to check that.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Jim
>
>
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> On Aug 14, 2016, at 3:04 PM, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto:lsni
> <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have been thinking about this one for a while, and wanted to hear how you
> approach this one.
>
> To make reports, and the like, accessible is pretty straightforward.
> However, when working with a letter, do you use styled headings?
>
> In some letters, I can see making the RE: line a heading (H2) and maybe
> even the company name if it is in text at the top (H1). Do you do this?
>
> Also for contracts, I can see the sub titles in a contract styled into
> headings, but most of them have the 'this is a contract between X and X',
> do you make that into an H1? Do you do this?
>
> Thanks in advance! Curious to know what everyone does for these kinds of
> docs!
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
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