Hey everyone.

Since a few years, my college has started requiring everyone to use a fixed cover page for all assignments that are to be handed in. My school has fantastic professors that I respect a great deal, but when it comes to computers, they're all pretty clumsy (even though they think they're great at it). The cover page is a total mess. Not on the outside, but the markup of it is a pain in the arse.

For one, it uses a bunch of empty headings so it messes up the navigation pane, but sure, I can live with that.

What bothers me most is that if I change the standard font and the styles for the headings, the cover page will change along with it. In other words, it kinda seems as if the cover page forces me to use certain fonts and so on. We're not allowed to deviate from the standard cover page, so I can't do that.

Now I reckon you might be thinking: "Can't you just set your favourite styles and then change the cover page fonts back to what they were?" And you'd be right, but it doesn't really seem ideal. If I did that, I'd have to put in a bunch of work for every new assignment I start to type and if I were to change a few styles while I'm working on a document, the cover page would go wonky again.

I've tried playing around with section breaks, but I couldn't really figure out a way to separate style sets.

[Edit] Oh, I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm using Word 2007 on a Windows 7 machine right now, instead of the versions listed in my profile.