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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Mar 8, 2018 6:33AM

The very sensible approach you describe is the one recommended by Microsoft, and therefore also the one best supported by default templates in Word .

In my case, however, practically all Word documents I currently work on are intended to be published as PDFs and in some cases also as HTML. My goal is to reduce the amount of remediation required after conversion to other formats so that when edits are required to the original Word source file, I will be able to recreate the PDF and HTML versions with the least amount of post-conversion work possible.

For what it's worth, in my templates I often edit the built-in Title style so that it also has a Heading 1 outline level and matches almost identically the visual style of a Heading 1. And I remove Heading 1 from the Quick Style gallery in order to discourage other content editors from using it for standard headings.

Phil.
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Philip Kiff
D4K Communications

On March 8, 2018 8:02:41 AM EST, "Swift, Daniel P." < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>Phil -- I'm curious as to why you would use the H1 for a title instead
>of the 'title' in Word? My approach has been title, sub-title (if
>warranted), TOC, and then headers. Taking this approach, the title
>will not appear in the TOC and you don't have to worry about remapping
>the headers and the TOC. Am I missing something or doing something
>completely wrong?
>
>Dan Swift
>Senior Web Specialist
>Enterprise Services
>West Chester University
>610.738.0589
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