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Please help me
Please advise in the following situation.
I am using Word 2003. I have some documents that where created in Word 97 and Word 2000. Those documents are suppose to follow a macro that opens a master document which specifies the styles and format all my documents have to follow. Since I upgrade to Word 2003, all my documents have lost their format. I have tried to reformat them manually but they are long documents and I have many of them. I look forward for some help to recover my styles and format in my documents. Thanks! |
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Why not just attach the template containing the styles you want to use?
wrote in message ... Please advise in the following situation. I am using Word 2003. I have some documents that where created in Word 97 and Word 2000. Those documents are suppose to follow a macro that opens a master document which specifies the styles and format all my documents have to follow. Since I upgrade to Word 2003, all my documents have lost their format. I have tried to reformat them manually but they are long documents and I have many of them. I look forward for some help to recover my styles and format in my documents. Thanks! |
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Hi Jezebel
Jezebel wrote: Why not just attach the template containing the styles you want to use? [..] That would not make them available in the document (w/o copying them over the Organizer), wouldn't it? 2cents ..bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Of course it would!
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robert M. Franz" wrote in message ... Hi Jezebel Jezebel wrote: Why not just attach the template containing the styles you want to use? [..] That would not make them available in the document (w/o copying them over the Organizer), wouldn't it? 2cents .bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Of course it would! Oh... when "automatically update document styles" is ticked, yes it does, of course. Greetinx ..bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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I don't think so. I think the template styles become available when you
attach the template. Why else would you attach it? But I don't use this feature, so I could very well be wrong. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robert M. Franz" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Of course it would! Oh... when "automatically update document styles" is ticked, yes it does, of course. Greetinx .bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Attaching the template makes its styles (and macros etc) available to the
document. If 'Automatically update' is NOT checked, then the appearance of any existing matter in the document does not change. If it IS checked then the existing matter is restyled according to the template's style definitions. It is similarly restyled each time you reopen the document. "Robert M. Franz" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Of course it would! Oh... when "automatically update document styles" is ticked, yes it does, of course. Greetinx .bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Hi Jezebel
Jezebel wrote: Attaching the template makes its styles (and macros etc) available to the document. If 'Automatically update' is NOT checked, then the appearance of any existing matter in the document does not change. Which, in effect, means that the styles are not "available" then (I checked this yesterday upon Suzanne's reply: a self-made style in template1.dot is not selectable in a new doc based on normal.dot as long as "Automatically update" is not checked. If it IS checked then the existing matter is restyled according to the template's style definitions. It is similarly restyled each time you reopen the document. Ack. Now I guess I gotta read up on the differences of making styles available via attaching vs. via the Organizer. Greetinx ..bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I don't think so. I think the template styles become available when you attach the template. Not here on my Word 2003 (see my other answer to Jezebel "below"). Why else would you attach it? But I don't use this feature, so I could very well be wrong. I guess you make makros and autotexts available that way, but not styles (w/o AutoUpdate, that is ...). Greetinx ..bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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You are correct that unless Automatically Update Document Styles has been
checked, your document will not have access to the styles from the newly attached template in your document. You have been receiving assistance from two of the most knowledgable people out there on the subject of styles. If you use the Organizer, you will want to copy the styles from one document/template to your document three times. See http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm. This can be simply selecting the styles to be copied and then clicking the copy button three times. Note that if you routinely leave your documents set to update styles from the template, this setting will bite you in the behind when you can least afford it. This is because, if for any reason your template can't be found, Word will attach normal.dot and update styles from there. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Robert M. Franz" wrote in message ... Hi Jezebel Jezebel wrote: Attaching the template makes its styles (and macros etc) available to the document. If 'Automatically update' is NOT checked, then the appearance of any existing matter in the document does not change. Which, in effect, means that the styles are not "available" then (I checked this yesterday upon Suzanne's reply: a self-made style in template1.dot is not selectable in a new doc based on normal.dot as long as "Automatically update" is not checked. If it IS checked then the existing matter is restyled according to the template's style definitions. It is similarly restyled each time you reopen the document. Ack. Now I guess I gotta read up on the differences of making styles available via attaching vs. via the Organizer. Greetinx .bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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