Heading styles not copied correctly using organizer

[DocA]

Hi,

I'm using the Organiser to copy Heading styles from one template into
another. It appears to copy them correctly (no error messages), but the
document headings do not get updated with the new styles. E.g Heading 1 has
no indent in the "source" template, but appears with an indent of 0.5" in
the "target" template.Why is this? (The page size and margins are the same
in both cases.)

Thanks,

Adrian

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Adrian -

I'm afraid it's a known problem that numbered heading styles don't travel
well via the Organizer. Try copying three times (don't ask - this is magic
<g>), but you may find it is quicker and safer to recreate the numbering in
the new template. If you do this, be sure to set everything up from Heading
1, including all formats and links to the lower level styles.

 

[DocA]

Thanks a lot Margaret.

The Organiser is such a great tool that it's a real shame it doesn't work
properly! Well, at least the 3x workaround works; thanks for the tip!

Adrian

 

[Charles Kenyon]

It does work properly - sort of! The problem is that properly set up styles
are based upon one another. Styles are copied one by one in alphabetical
order. If Style A is based on Style C, when Style A is first copied into the
recipient template, there is no Style C there and it loses the reference.
The copied Style A will retain any changes from Style C but not the
unchanged formatting characteristics of Style C. The second time you copy,
Style C is there when Style A comes in and the reference is kept. I'm not
sure that the third copy is necessary, but it doesn't hurt. (So far as I
know, I'm the originator of the copy three times prescription.)
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[DocA]

Thanks Charles,

In my case, I think it must be a different problem as none of my headings
are based on another style. In fact, none of my styles are based on any
other style...they are all based on "no style" because I prefer them to be
completely independent. That said, I found that copying twice solved the
problem for the headings...I've no idea why. It didn't, however, solve the
problems for some other styles (neither did copying three times). In the end
I put the styles in a template and attached this to both documents...that
works fine.

Adrian

 

[Guest]

Unless auto update is chosen for the heading style even
if you copy the style from another source it will not be
applied. Pl set the auto update option for the heading to
ON.