Copying and Keeping Styles

[Zane Lassiter]

With Word 2003, I had been successful at updating a user style template by
attaching the style template to a document, updating the style in the
document via FORMAT's Styles and Formatting, then replying YES to the save
document prompt and YES to the save changes to .DOT prompt.

Then, I had been successful in using Tools' Templates and Add-Ins to apply,
in one fell swoop, the updated styles (from the updated user template) to
other Word documents.

Now, when I update a style and save document and save .DOT, the user
template is apparently not updated. This is confirmed by my attaching it to a
document, checking 'automatically update document styles', and seeing that
the styles in the document are not updated. They do not reflect the updates I
tried to make to the user template.

Further, I tried to use the Templates and Add-Ins organizer to copy styles
several ways, document to document, template to document, document to
template, etc. Nothing worked. I was never able to update styles in the
target document or template.

Can you help or suggest?
Thanks,
Zane

 

[Stefan Blom]

"Automatically update document styles" (in Tools | Templates and Add-Ins)
changes styles in a document to match those of the attached template; to do
the reverse, use the "Add to template" option in the Modify Style dialog box.

See also http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/attachtemplate/index.html and
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/templaterelations/index.html.

 

[David Teich]

I have a related question. How to I change the template? I could do that in
the "templates and add-ins' menu in W2002, but I can't find it in help in
2007.

thanx

 

[Stefan Blom]

To attach a different template i Word 2007: On the Developer tab of the
ribbon, click Document Template; this presents the Templates and Add-Ins
dialog box as in previous versions of Word.

If the Developer tab is not visible, click Office button | Word Options,
Popular category. Check the "Show Developer tab in the Ribbon" option, and
click OK.

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[David Teich]

Thanx!

I just recently found it by going very deep down in
buttonptions:add-ins:template..., which was very annoying. The point to the
developer menu and ribbon is perfect and much faster.

 

[Stefan Blom]

You are welcome.

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Microsoft Word MVP


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