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

Elizabeth,

My comment about where to define the indentation wasn't really related to solving the problem of copying styles. It's a side issue. The point was that defining numbering in the Paragraph dialogue box is often unreliable and defining it in the Customize Outline Numbered List dialogue box is more reliable.

My suggestion for copying styles successfully is to forget the Organizer and to use the VBA macro command instead.

Regards,
Steve

----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Fullerton" <Elizabeth_Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:24 AM
Subject: atw: Re: Copying styles from templates [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]



I agree that you should specify the indentation in the numbering
dialogue, rather than the paragraph dialogue - in an earlier version of
Word it was the only way to keep the indenting stable.

However, I have still had the indent-missing problem when copying these
styles over via the Organizer. Perhaps if the target heading styles had
their indent created by a different method than the source heading
styles, that could be the source of the problem (when I copy styles it's
usually to a document where the style creation is of unknown origin).




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Silcock, Howard
DR
Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2006 9:19 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Copying styles from templates [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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.
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