I served as the Xyleme Administrator for the PACSETI program until I departed the program in April 2021. One of many responsibilities I had in that role was to maintain a Word output template file that controlled how printed outputs would render from Xyleme. The publishing process entailed an .xls processing engine that "talked" to the Word output template to render training materials published from Xyleme. This involved getting "under the hood" of the Word document to customize the styles associated with various elements of the structure to make the published document appear as desired. This provided for:
Consistent branding across publications
Arial fonts for maximizing accessibility
Desired structure for various elements, including
Lists
Tables
Pictures
It was a healthy way to explore details of styles in Word and learn how to manage them to achieve desired outcomes in published materials from Xyleme.
A feature of Xyleme also allows users to import content into that system by using a Word document that is styled in a particular way to allow the content to import and be structured using Xyleme's platform for authoring content. In order to take advantage of this feature, I created a Word template that faculty could use to create content in a Word document and then allow me to import it into Xyleme. The document contains various styles from Word to allow content authors to achieve desirable results when the content was imported into Xyleme. This resulted in more streamlined authoring and minimal editing of the content after import.