David wrote:
Robert, thankyou for your reply.
From you remarks I take it that I need to make a "Memoir.dot" not formed at
all on the Normal.dot and setup styles within the template then reformat all
the existing files (I would strip and import), and NOT fiddle with the
separate files as they are.

if you have used styles in your individual memoir files so far,
reformatting will be a lot easier. Generally, we advise to use the
built-in styles that Word provides (say, "normal" or "body text" for,
well, body text, "heading 1", "heading 2", etc. for heading level text,
and so on. You can adjust these styles to your liking, but since they
are there anyway (you cannot delete the built-in styles), there's no
good reason to create your own styles (in fact, there are some good
reasons to use the built-in ones :-)).


If Publisher is the way to go, then I assume I
should output the files as a PDF, otherwise if the advise is to stick with
Word then I would simply produce a large Doc file, supposedly using Outline.

I'm not a publisher user myself, so I cannot really advise you there. If
properly understood, Word can be used well to create all sorts of
document types. It's not particularly well suited when you need 100%
color control in many workflows (it doesn't speak CMYK), nor when you
need a long document with many, many imported objects and want to let
the text flow around it (it's pretty much OK when you can work with
InlineObjects).

A lot of good advice can be found he

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting.htm

HTH
Robert
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