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Re: Something About Formatting Word Docs Feels Wrong For Whatever Reason

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From: Elizabeth Thomas
Date: Apr 23, 2019 12:19PM

I do the document title as heading 1. Main sections are heading 2. I know that some people have multiple heading 1s per document, and it's not actually incorrect, but I try to stick to one heading 1 per document, which is the document's title. This does, however, result in needing to manual remove the heading 1 from the table of contents. Also, Word's title tag maps to a <p> tag in the PDF whereas heading 1 just maps to heading 1.

-Elizabeth Thomas

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> On Apr 23, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hi,
> I've been formatting my Word documents like this:
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> * Title of document using Title style
> * Optional subtitle using Subtitle style
> * Main sections with Heading 1 style
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> I've done this to keep the document title out of the table of contents, if it has one.
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> This feels wrong to me, because if the same document were a web document or a PDF document, I might have the document title duplicated as a heading 1, with document sections at heading 2. For documents I want to convert to PDF, I don't want to keep changing styles.
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> I'm keeping this simple just to illustrate what I'm saying.
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> Does this seem like I'm obsessing too much about this to you, or just how do you do this?
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