Applying Styles from a template to an existing document

[gus]

A colleague emails that:

"You want to attach the template, and then use the Organizer to copy
the
styles from the template into the open document. This way, the styles
in the
template are available in the open document. When you copy the styles
you
are asked whether you want to replace the existing styles, to which you
answer yes. You then use Format -> Style and formatting, to apply the
correct styles."

But this doesn't work for me.

Why not I wonder?

Gus

 

[Charles Kenyon]

I wonder, too.
I also wonder what this has to do with visual basic for applications.

You need to be more explicit about what problems you are having. What,
exactly, are you doing? What happens? What do you expect to happen instead?

http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm#Organizer
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Charles Kenyon

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[gus]

I expected that when I used the Organizer to copy from the template to
the document, all the content that was in a particular style (e.g. body
text) in the document to be transformed to the corresponding style in
the template.

This doesn't happen.

I also expected that when I used the Organizer to copy the header, for
example,from the template into the open document I would have the same
header in both.

This doesn't happen either.

Gus

 

[Charles Kenyon]

The header is not a style. It is text in a particular location. The
Organizer doesn't do anything with that. You might have header content from
an AutoText field. The Organizer can move AutoText, but still will not
change the header itself.

Well-constructed styles ofter will be linked to one another. So "body text"
may be based on "normal." If you only copy body text from template A to
template B, but not normal, you will lose any attributes of normal that were
in Template A's body text. Generally, I copy all related styles from one to
the other, and I copy them three times to maintain and update those
linkages. (Select the styles to be copied, using the Ctrl key to pick
multiple styles, click on the Copy button three times.)
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[Charles Kenyon]

To clarify, there is a "header" style, but that is the formatting for a
paragraph in a header, it is not the contents of that paragraph. Styles
contain formatting, not content.
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