RE: Style Copying Doesn't Work
From: CyberTaz (CyberTaz_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:27:09 -0800
Could be that what it doesn't tell you in Help is what happens if you are
copying in Styles by the same name as existing Styles in the receiving
document. That is probably further compounded by having modified default
Styles (Heading 1, etc.).
The process is not the problem -- you followed it perfectly, but here is a
suggestion;
Although there is no "law" against doing so, avoid making changes to the
built-in Styles. Instead, create new Styles and name them appropriately. That
will help avoid the conflict in the first place.
Hope this helps|:>)
BTW- You can also transfer Styles by copying a para that has the Style
applied & pasting it into a different doc. You still have to replace/delete
the text pasted in, but the style remains available.
"John Bigelow" wrote:
> Don't you hate it when a program feature fails to work in the fashion
> described by the documentation? I know I do!
>
> I have created one document in Word that is in the form of an outline. In
> that document I modified the styles, Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. to suit my
> needs. Now, I want to produce another document in the same style. No
> problem, I think, I'll just copy the styles I like from the first document to
> the second. I did so using the procedure described below in the help files:
>
> ------Begin Quote------------
> 1. On the Tools menu, click Templates and Add-Ins.
> 2. Click Organizer, and then click the Styles tab.
> 3. To copy items to or from a different template (template: A file or files
> that contain the
> structure and tools for shaping such elements as the style and page
> layout of finished files.
> For example, Word templates can shape a single document, and FrontPage
> templates can shape
> an entire Web site.) or file, click Close File to close the active
> document
> (active document: The document in which you're working. Text you type or
> graphics you insert in
> Microsoft Word appear in the active document. The title bar of the
> active document is highlighted.)
> and its attached template or to close the Normal template (Normal
> template: A global template
> that you can use for any type of document. You can modify this template
> to change the default
> document formatting or content.). Then click Open File, and open the
> template or file you want.
> 4. Click the items you want to copy in either list, and then click Copy.
> ---------End Quote----------
>
> (Sorry for the length quote, just wanted y'all to know that I DID RTFM.)
>
> Anyway, It doesn't work.
>
> In the second document some but not all of the formatting features that are
> part of the styles from the first document did not appear in the same styles
> in the second document after the style was copied. Specifically, and this is
> important in an ouline, the indentation.
>
> So, my question for those of you who might know about these things is: How
> do I copy a style from one document to another so that ALL of the formatting
> features in the style are actually copied. (Frankly, you'd think that would
> be the way it would work.)
>
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