Re: Possible to export individual styles to a template and then to import from it into a document?

From: Margaret Aldis (Margaret.Aldis_at_mvps.(SpamStopper)org.invalid)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:42:41 +0100

Hi Bridget

You don't say which version of Word, but I think you've been misled by the
behaviour of the right-hand dropdown in the dialog.

Firstly, the choice you get on the left should give you the current
document, the template it is attached to, and Normal.dot. Typically, if it's
the current document you want to update, you can leave that side alone.

On the right hand side, 'Close' Normal.dot and then click the same button
(now Open). You can now browse wherever you like (you'll start in the
template folder, so will probably be able to pick up your template there.)

When you have the two documents/templates selected, you can copy *either
way* between them. So if you want to copy from the template, select a style
on the right and you will see the Copy button arrows will go right to left.

It sounds like you are at the very beginning of this project and maybe don't
have the whole mechanism very clear yet. Ideally, you should use the
template to create new documents (which then automatically have not only the
right styles, but also the right page layout etc.), rather than trying to
apply a template post hoc to documents. 

-- 
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
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"Bridget" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:21bf01c44d64$8cc70ca0$7d02280a@phx.gbl...
> I couldn't find the other msg in this thread here at the
> ms ng site.
>
> I have a question re Organizer.  I just tried testing it
> and found a serious problem that I'll need to find a
> workaround for.
>
> Unless I'm doing something horribly wrong it seems that
> the styles go from a DOC to a TEMPLATE _only_.  This is
> really tough.  What is needed is for styles to
> be "importable" from a TEMPLATE to a DOC (although,
> granted, the left-hand side accepts NORMAL.DOT.  But we
> will not be saving the highly specialized styles for the
> manuals in NORMAL.DOT; this would not be good.  We'd save
> it to something like "MANUALS DEFAULT CODING.dot" or
> whatever.  But none of the templates in the same folder
> with the NORMAL.DOT show up "STYLES AVAILABLE IN:"
> pulldown so our MANUALS one in all probability wouldn't
> either.
>
> So, okay, it seems that the only thing we can do for that
> part (though it seems excessivly silly, but what can we
> do??) is to open the MANUALS template and _then_ open the
> organizer.
>
> But I'm _STILL_ stuck, it seems with saving to NORMAL.DOT
> (???)
>
> <sigh>
>
> What can we do to fix this? or what am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 21:45:29 GMT, AA <aa@nospam.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>> If not, does anyone
> >>> >> happen to know the line of VBA coding that would
> bring up the
> >>> >> organizer box (it seems only available once you
> have the STYLES... box
> >>> >> up, otherwise).
> >>
> >>> >Dialogs(wdDialogOrganizer).Show
> >>>
> >>
> >>Or with the Customize Dialog Box open, go to
> Tools>Organizer and (holding
> >>down the Control Key so it makes a copy instead of just
> a move) drag it to
> >>your toolbar.  You'll get to keep the Organizer icon.
> >
> >That trick is just TOO kewl for words.  All these years
> and I never
> >knew that trick!
> >
> >The only hitch is that the "organizer" function isn't
> found under
> >TOOLS in my version (MS Word 2000 v9.0.2720).  That trick
> works on
> >anything that is found under a pulldown menu but not
> something
> >accessed from a pulldown, i.e., a secondary box such as
> the Organizer
> >one is.  To get it, I have to click through FORMAT >
> STYLE > ORGANIZER
> >button.  This way of using the copy-and-drag trick only
> works for 2
> >levels, not 3 like this one is.
> >
> >Am I missing something?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >.
> >