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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Jun 26, 2020 9:16:58 GMT -5
I was wondering if anyone has experience with locking Word templates or documents so that the styles can't be tampered with. My editorial department creates templates for each new business proposal we work on, which are customized to both comply with RFP requirements and our house style, but writers tend to ignore them and so we wind up having to reformat everything all over again, which takes away time that could be better spent editing. A coworker and I are trying to research ways to do this but also allow for them to be easily unlocked by editors - sometimes we have to do some trickery with the line spacing or what have you to get documents under the page limit.
I found some information about adding/using the Developer tab to the top ribbon, but I'm not sure whether that would actually suit our purposes or not. Any advice?
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Post by nowimnothing on Jun 26, 2020 18:40:20 GMT -5
I was wondering if anyone has experience with locking Word templates or documents so that the styles can't be tampered with. My editorial department creates templates for each new business proposal we work on, which are customized to both comply with RFP requirements and our house style, but writers tend to ignore them and so we wind up having to reformat everything all over again, which takes away time that could be better spent editing. A coworker and I are trying to research ways to do this but also allow for them to be easily unlocked by editors - sometimes we have to do some trickery with the line spacing or what have you to get documents under the page limit.
I found some information about adding/using the Developer tab to the top ribbon, but I'm not sure whether that would actually suit our purposes or not. Any advice?
Could you cut and then paste their unformatted text into your template document? |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Jun 29, 2020 9:43:56 GMT -5
I was wondering if anyone has experience with locking Word templates or documents so that the styles can't be tampered with. My editorial department creates templates for each new business proposal we work on, which are customized to both comply with RFP requirements and our house style, but writers tend to ignore them and so we wind up having to reformat everything all over again, which takes away time that could be better spent editing. A coworker and I are trying to research ways to do this but also allow for them to be easily unlocked by editors - sometimes we have to do some trickery with the line spacing or what have you to get documents under the page limit.
I found some information about adding/using the Developer tab to the top ribbon, but I'm not sure whether that would actually suit our purposes or not. Any advice?
Could you cut and then paste their unformatted text into your template document? We do that, but the problem is that it still takes up time because writers who think that they know how to apply styles don't, and so then you still have to do a lot of formatting by hand. It's also frustrating because we emphasize writing in the templates from the very beginning, at the first proposal meeting and during the next several meetings, but they just do whatever they want anyway. |
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