Please help me

[Guest]

Please advise in the following situation.

I am using Word 2003. I have some documents that where
created in Word 97 and Word 2000. Those documents are
suppose to follow a macro that opens a master document
which specifies the styles and format all my documents
have to follow.

Since I upgrade to Word 2003, all my documents have lost
their format. I have tried to reformat them manually but
they are long documents and I have many of them.

I look forward for some help to recover my styles and
format in my documents. Thanks!

 

[Jezebel]

Why not just attach the template containing the styles you want to use?

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hi Jezebel

Why not just attach the template containing the styles you want to use?

[..]

That would not make them available in the document (w/o copying them
over the Organizer), wouldn't it?

2cents
..bob

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Of course it would!

Hi Jezebel

Why not just attach the template containing the styles you want to use?

[..]

That would not make them available in the document (w/o copying them
over the Organizer), wouldn't it?

2cents
.bob
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[Robert M. Franz]

Of course it would!

Oh... when "automatically update document styles" is ticked, yes it
does, of course.

Greetinx
..bob

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't think so. I think the template styles become available when you
attach the template. Why else would you attach it? But I don't use this
feature, so I could very well be wrong.

 

[Jezebel]

Attaching the template makes its styles (and macros etc) available to the
document. If 'Automatically update' is NOT checked, then the appearance of
any existing matter in the document does not change. If it IS checked then
the existing matter is restyled according to the template's style
definitions. It is similarly restyled each time you reopen the document.

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hi Jezebel

Attaching the template makes its styles (and macros etc) available to the
document. If 'Automatically update' is NOT checked, then the appearance of
any existing matter in the document does not change.

Which, in effect, means that the styles are not "available" then (I
checked this yesterday upon Suzanne's reply: a self-made style in
template1.dot is not selectable in a new doc based on normal.dot as long
as "Automatically update" is not checked.

If it IS checked then
the existing matter is restyled according to the template's style
definitions. It is similarly restyled each time you reopen the document.

Ack.

Now I guess I gotta read up on the differences of making styles
available via attaching vs. via the Organizer.

Greetinx
..bob

 

[Robert M. Franz]

I don't think so. I think the template styles become available when you
attach the template.

Not here on my Word 2003 (see my other answer to Jezebel "below").

Why else would you attach it? But I don't use this
feature, so I could very well be wrong.

I guess you make makros and autotexts available that way, but not styles
(w/o AutoUpdate, that is ...).

Greetinx
..bob

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You are correct that unless Automatically Update Document Styles has been
checked, your document will not have access to the styles from the newly
attached template in your document.

You have been receiving assistance from two of the most knowledgable people
out there on the subject of styles.

If you use the Organizer, you will want to copy the styles from one
document/template to your document three times. See
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm. This can be simply selecting
the styles to be copied and then clicking the copy button three times.

Note that if you routinely leave your documents set to update styles from
the template, this setting will bite you in the behind when you can least
afford it. This is because, if for any reason your template can't be found,
Word will attach normal.dot and update styles from there.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Okay, I've tested this, and I see you're right. It would appear that
"Automatically update document styles" means something different from what I
assumed. I took it to mean, "Apply the newly attached templates styles to
the document," in effect doing a Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+Spacebar to make all
paragraphs in the document in, say, Body Text, assume the formatting of the
Body Text style in the template. What it evidently (also?) means is, "Add
the styles from the template to those in the document" or "Automatically
update the styles *list*." That's a bit misleading, I think, but at least
now I know.