That sounds like it might be a job for Quick Styles in the normalemail.dotm template. See http://turtleflock-ol2007.spaces.liv...E3D8!155.entry

We don't want the users to be able to change styleset or to be able to
use all the inbuilt styles - so these need to be 'hidden'.

I suspect that might be possible only by using an add-in to completely rewrite the formatting portion of the ribbon.

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"xtine" wrote in message ...

Christine, you didn't say what you're actually trying to accomplish with your custom form. Chances are that it can be implemented better with an add-in./

Hi

All we are trying to do is to present the users with a default blank
'template' that has a restricted set of styles in it (which happens to
be a multi-level numbered list). This is so that the users can send
an email in the 'house style', using the same keystrokes that they use
in Word 2007 to create documents. There are no fields or anything on
the template - its blank.

As we have not yet rolled out Word 2007 we can change which keystrokes
are used, but to date I haven't managed to get the keystrokes to
'stick' other than using my .oft

Basically I need 5 levels of numbered heading and 5 indented paragraph
styles, all based on a style we have called ParaBase which is Arial
12pt, 12pt after... so not anything 'non standard' there.

We don't want the users to be able to change styleset or to be able to
use all the inbuilt styles - so these need to be 'hidden'.

I have all of this working in my .oft - the problem is that to get to
it the users would need to click several times and they won't do this
- they will just use the default, so they will end up sending out
documents that don't conform to the house numbering styles etc.