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Any other uptake on this question Bill? Not many comments here.

I'm thinking that the support overhead for structured authoring in Word as with any other word processing environment is too big a bite for most non-specialist business environments. Having tried to introduce notions of standardized styles a number of times in the past, I look at the increased constraints, added specializations, added support costs and, in spite of "it's a good thing", I'm thinking it's close to a non-starter in the general case.

The skill levels of your average office worker with respect to word processing is lamentable and, in my experience, no one among management really cares. It's good enough for jazz, as they used to say.
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Hello Ed,

Thanks for your post.

A couple of people contacted me via email. I will get their permission to post their comments on the blog.

In general, organizations seem willing to enforce word processing styles and/or structured authoring when there is a certain document type or content type many people are creating. One of the emails I received gave the example of an educational publisher that is using structured MS Word authoring to create questions and answers for students.