atw: Re: Copying styles from templates [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Howard,

You are not alone. I have experienced the same problem with using Organizer.

In fact, a couple of months ago I posted the same question as you - except that it was about copying bullet styles.

I stumbled on the answer: use VBA. There is a VBA command that copies all the styles from a template to the current document:

ActiveDocument.CopyStylesFromTemplate ("D:\Data\Templates\MIPS Procedure.dot")

From my experience, it works.

One problem though, is that it copies all the styles in the template and so you might overwrite styles you didn't want to overwrite. Therefore, you might need to create a template containing only the numbered styles that you want to copy.

So far, I haven't found a command to copy just one style at a time.

Regards,
Steve Byrne

PS It might be worthwhile checking where you specified the indentation. Shauna Kelly (http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/index.html) suggests that you should define indentation in the Customize Outline Numbered List dialogue box rather than in the Paragraph dialogue box.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Silcock, Howard DR" <Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:40 PM
Subject: atw: Copying styles from templates [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]


Has anyone had problems copying a paragraph style in Word from a
template to a document, using the Organizer?

I naively thought that I could update the principal paragraph style
("Para") in a document this way. The document was created using an
earlier version of the template and I wanted to make sure that, wherever
"Para" was applied in the document, it would have the attributes of the
"Para" in the *new* template. I used the Organizer to copy the "Para"
style from the template into the document, overwriting the existing
"Para" style in the document.

Most of the attributes of the template style carried over, but the
hanging indent, which existed - and was in fact the same - in both
versions of "Para", was simply destroyed after the copying. I suppose
this may simply be a bug in the Organizer, but I couldn't recreate it in
a simple test, so before wasting too much time wanted to check if anyone
else knows about this problem.

Howard

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Network Infrastructure Development
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