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From: Jim Homme
Date: Aug 14, 2016 2:49PM

Lisa,

I mean the style whose name is simplyHeader. D


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Bender HighTest Team,
Bender Consulting Services, inc.
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On Aug 14, 2016, at 4:30 PM, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:

Hi Jim,

So you mean titles and not headings from the styling menu in Word?

Cheers

Lisa

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:

Hi Lisa,

I would not give the company name a heading style. Heading styles are
meant for section headings. You might want to use the Heading style.
That's different from heading with a number.


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On Aug 14, 2016, at 3:52 PM, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ><mailto:lsni
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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> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ><
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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: <EMAIL REMOVED> ><mailto:lsni
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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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