Steve Thank you very much for this info. I didn't think of looking for a VBA solution and didn't know about CopyStylesFromTemplate, but I think it could be useful. Perhaps it would also be possible to write a macro for copying selected styles from a template. I may have a look when I have some time. Your suggestion from Shauna Kelly's site is interesting, but it looks as if it would mean modifying the template, which I don't really want to do, as it's not mine to play with (I could make my own copy, but then could have maintenance problems). Howard -----Original Message----- From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Byrne Sent: Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:19 To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: 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. ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************