How to Create a Template from an Existing Document?

[Swengtoo]

Hi,
I have written a 100+ page manual using MS-Word.

As I was writing the document, I incrementally added more styles to
help me get "this consistent look". I didn't check the "Add to
template" checkbox since, for some reason, it kept crashing MS-Word...
So my workaround was to add/modify any style I want to document
WITHOUT adding it to the template on which it was initially based.

I now have the document and it looks great. Now, I want to save all
the styles defined in that document into a CLEAN, EMPTY template.

How do I do that?

Thank you very much!
Swengtoo

 

[Sebastian Gingter]

Hi,

i don't know if i call the menus correct because i use
the german version.

In 'Format' -> 'Templates' there is a button on the left
lower side (organize?).

There you can copy the defined styles into another
document or even a template.

The clean and empty template is created, when you take
the base template document (in german it's normal.dot),
rename it (while word is closed), start and close word.
Then there is a new, clean template file.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

The clean and empty template is created, when you take
the base template document (in german it's normal.dot),
rename it (while word is closed), start and close word.
Then there is a new, clean template file.

This isn't the recommended way to create a new template - Normal.dot is a
special beast and you have no way of knowing which of its special properties
might exist in the copy and thus really confuse things!

You can create a new template based on Normal (blank document) or any other
template from File > New and the Templates dialog (click the radio button),
or you can save a document as a .dot file.

 

[Mike Seddon]

Unfortunately if you just save as .dot, your template will not only
contain the styles you have in oyur current document, but it will also
contain any styles you may have had in the history of the document! So
a clean template you will not get as you expect!



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