Do you have an existing template you want to use, or do the styles you want
to copy exist only in a document file? I find that Word will let me "apply"
a different document's styles to a given document, but that unless the
format is .docx, Word tells me it's not a valid template. So, for example,
if I apply the styles in document1.doc, I get an error message, but if the
file is document1.docx, it works fine. It seems to work even when there's an
error message, but it leaves you with an uncomfortable sense that something
didn't quite go as planned.
The more traditional route, however, is to apply a .dot, .dotx, or .dotm
(template files) to a document.
Having said all that... the method is as follows:
1. Developer tab.
2. Click Document Template.
3. Click Attach to navigate to the target document or template.
4. Once back in the Templates and Add-ins dialog, click to enable
Automatically update document styles.
5. Click OK.
Note: if the Developer tab is missing, choose Office button - Word Options -
Popular tab, and click to enable "Show Developer tab in the ribbon".
Mind you, I don't know of a non-programmatic way to do 15 documents at once,
unless all of them have Automatically update enabled at the outset and are
already attached to the desired template... in which case you probably
wouldn't be asking the question.
