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From: Jim Homme
Date: Aug 14, 2016 3:15PM

Hi Lisa,
I'm a keyboard-only screen reader user. I would use CTRL+SHIFT+S, to open the Styles dialog. I would then type the word header, which should choose the right one. It's possible I'm not remembering the right name. Anyway, if that dialog is not showing all styles, you have to choose that option.

Thanks.

Jim


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On Aug 14, 2016, at 4:56 PM, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:

Hi Jim,

I don't have Header in the Word 2016 styling menu...What version are you
using and which OS?

Cheers

Lisa

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:

Lisa,

I mean the style whose name is simplyHeader. D


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On Aug 14, 2016, at 4:30 PM, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ><mailto:lsni
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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> ><
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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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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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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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