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

Hi Howard,

Like everyone else, it seems, I have had this problem too.
It occurs when I use the Organizer [sic] but not when I attach a
template.
As I work in an environment where some of our docs use numbered headings
and others don't, my original method was to apply numbered heading using
Word's OrganGrinder.
My solution now is to create a template containing only numbered-heading
styles and attach it to the base document when I need to use numbered
headings. [Remember to tick "...update all styles"]

The problem appears to have evolved in Word 2002 and persists in Word
2003: it was certainly not present in Word 2000.

Another thing I've noticed in Word 2003: you can't attach a template to
another template. I'm sure I used to be able to in W97.

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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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     Howard L. Silcock
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 Common Services SOE Program
Network Infrastructure Development
    Department of Defence
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