@Charles: terminological quibble, given your profession and mine (technical author) – for me, forgoing suggests choosing to make do without something they're aware of, while the frequent problem is that users aren't even aware the Styles mechanism exists!

In the dark days when I had more to do with Word, I used to set Normal to bright pink and then define base Serif and Sans styles for other styles to inherit from: that way, the hapless user who failed to follow instructions would quickly see something wasn't right …