Hello zy... & thanks for replying.

Um, the problem with your opening gambit is that under the restriction a user has no access to Styles. Hence...!

Presently, I am working on a copy, as you suggested, which I made as follows:

1. I opened an earlier version of the document and saved it, with complete text, etc, as a template.
2. I deleted all the text and saved the template again, leaving me with a new blank template per the original.
3. Opened the new template,


4. Copied the text to the new template.

Or at least, that's what I THINK I did. (When troubleshooting, I tend to get lost.) Anyway, it seems, so far, to have worked—but as I don't trust it, I am presently doing a "pseudo-edit" (a complete read through, just to make certain that every character is where it should be).

Here is some brain flatulence:

While you doing what you are doing, use Styles to cut down on work

Not knowing precisely your situation, here is a thought or two what I would do

I would make Headers into Header 1, Header 2, and so on

Along with these I would also either keep or modify Normal, e.g., font, spacing, etc

I would go through my document doing this -- My most used style Normal I would know for sure had the correct fonts, etc

Now, with my Document Map, I could jump to what I wanted to edit, for example, change this to Header 1, 2, 3...

With the Document Map you have a nice outline of your book, for example, if you see something as a Header 3, but in keeping with your guidelines, you can jump to it and simply Style it into Header 2

Farther, I would do some zoom outs to see over-all how my long document was looking

Keep in mind that second best may be more efficient and time saving than the ideal -- That is, don't get bogged down in the minute

Stand back often and evaluate how can I do something more efficiently -- Push Word to help you with its zillions of ways to do something

I know Word and Excel well enough to spot something I know they can do efficiently, so I learn how