Re: Fighting with templates (again)

From: Margaret Aldis (Margaret.Aldis_at_mvps.(SpamStopper)org.invalid)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:17:58 -0000

"RegUK" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93ACE5FD-59D5-4459-B195-F8DAD79FDA95@microsoft.com...
>
> But when I tried to attach the template to the documents and implement the
style changes it all went baggy at the bottom and Word died.

One extra piece of advice following from this - if you attach the template
and update styles for *existing* documents that won't do anything to fix
page layout, direct formatting, incipient corruptions (complex tables, messy
lists etc. etc.).

You will get the best results (showing what you can achieve as early as
possible) with brand new documents. Document conversion and legacy documents
are a whole different ball game - if this is a big issue in your
organization there are certainly things you can do to help (and obviously
having solid target designs and templates is part of that), but 'automatic'
style updating is probably not the major focus. Almost certainly you will
need to paste text into a fresh document shell - via some 'cleaned out' form
(some people simply strip all the formatting out completely, but you can
often find semi-automatic ways of making use of what tagging and formatting
is already there provided you go via a 'quarantine' document). 

-- 
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
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Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org

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