Importing paragraph style definitions from another document

[Mister.Fred.Ma]

I have two unrelated documents, the first is a lengthy series of notes
from a colleague, and a 2nd which is a report I'm writing up. I'd
like to transplant the notes into my report. However, each document
is unaware of the paragraph style definitions in the other document.
Some style names exist in both documents, even though their settings
and usage are not necessarily related. If I simply cut and paste the
notes into my report, the format is really messed up, and it is
manually very intensive to go through each paragraph, check what it
looked like in the original notes, and apply a suitable style from my
report document. It would be much preferable for the notes to be in
their original format, then I can recognize immediately what each
paragraph should look like, and perhaps there is still some way for me
to apply the suitable style from my report document. I'm not sure how
this can be done, however. The only way for the format to be unmessed-
up is for me to keep the notes in its original doc file, in which case
I don't have access to the styles in my report document. I thought
that I might ask for a way to import selected styles from the report
document into the notes document and hopefully there won't be a
collision in style names. Can anyone suggest how people normally
merge 2 documents with unrelated style definitions?

 

[Mister.Fred.Ma]

I have two unrelated documents, the first is a lengthy series of notes
from a colleague, and a 2nd which is a report I'm writing up. I'd
like to transplant the notes into my report. However, each document
is unaware of the paragraph style definitions in the other document.
Some style names exist in both documents, even though their settings
and usage are not necessarily related. If I simply cut and paste the
notes into my report, the format is really messed up, and it is
manually very intensive to go through each paragraph, check what it
looked like in the original notes, and apply a suitable style from my
report document. It would be much preferable for the notes to be in
their original format, then I can recognize immediately what each
paragraph should look like, and perhaps there is still some way for me
to apply the suitable style from my report document. I'm not sure how
this can be done, however. The only way for the format to be unmessed-
up is for me to keep the notes in its original doc file, in which case
I don't have access to the styles in my report document. I thought
that I might ask for a way to import selected styles from the report
document into the notes document and hopefully there won't be a
collision in style names. Can anyone suggest how people normally
merge 2 documents with unrelated style definitions?

There seems to be a way to transfer style definitions using Tools-

TemplatesAndAddIns->Organizer. The online help doesn't say anything

about selectively choosing style definitions. I haven't been able to
make it work because of an error "This document template does not
exist". So it looks like it isn't just a one-touch procedure to
transplant style definitions. The document template field contains a
path to a nonexistent users's file. Can't seem to find an immediate
way around this; Word's help explains the idea of a template, but I'm
not sure why I need one (especially someone else's), or how to tell it
that I'm not interested in attaching to a different template. I
suspect that the way this works is that I have to create a template
with the definitions from the current document, but I only seem to be
given the option to attach a pre-existing template.