Have you tried opening the document with the template, deleting the text and saving THAT as a template? Does that work? Linda Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com ABC Free Ezine ~ Free Ebooks and Tutorials *all outgoing mail scanned by Norton AV. If you got a bug that looks like it came from me, it did NOT! -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cathy.Evans@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 2:06 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Word 2002: Applying new template styles to existing document A user is wanting to bring a template from another document into his document. Adding the template through template/add-in menu was not successful, so we took the existing document with desired template, renamed it, deleted text, then pasted the users document so it was in the correct template. Problem is the numbering styles in the desired template are not transferring to show new formatting. The pasted text still holds the style names of the old templates (style names are slightly different in old/new templates) so even though his document is in the template with the desired numbering styles, he now has to go through and select the sections and apply new style name in order for the numbering style, tabs, fonts, etc., set up in template to be applied. (hope I'm explaining rightly) This seems like a cumbersome method, does anyone have any recommendations for a better way to approach this situation? Thank you, Cathy ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************