If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
I remember some time ago finding a MSKB article that stated that list bullet
styles, list number styles and outline levels above 5 would corrupt when copied from one document to another using the template organiser. The Microsoft recommendation at that time was to create your own bullet styles rather than using the existing list bullet styles in Word, and to use VBA to copy outline or bulleted styles from one document to another, but it didn't give sample code. I cant' find it any more. It was for Word 2000. Anyway, suffice it to say that this can be a problem, particularly if you have documents from other companies that you want to convert to use your house style numbering . The way we got round it in the last place I worked was to import the styles via XML on creating the document. We used a third party product called WordExchange to do this. They are based in Reading, Berkshire. Genine "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Copying numbered styles from one template/document to another frequently fails. I'm told you have to do it several times, but I have not personally had any experience with this. Would it work to create a new document based on the template that has the desired styles and use Insert | File to bring the existing document into it? -- 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. wrote in message ... yes -----Original Message----- Have you defined the indents and tab settings in Format | Numbering (*not* Format | Paragraph)? -- 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. "Eileen Cowan" wrote in message ... I have set up the numbering properly. I also lost bulleted list styles. The styles keep the numbers and bullets but lose the indents and tab settings. The big problem is that I have to fix these styles in each document where this happens because I cannot copy the styles from another template. -----Original Message----- Hello Eileen Eileen Cowan wrote: I am using custom templates with many bulleted and numbered lists. These styles lose their formatting often and when I try to copy the styles to or from another template to make corrections, the styles will not copy correctly. The only way I can fix styles is to reformat the style or styles in each document. Are those styles losing "only" numbering-related formatting, or other stuff (font, size, etc.)? Have you setup your numbering according to the following specifications? Numbering: See the section on "Numbering, bullets, Headings, Outlines" (by Shauna Kelly) http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/ Word's numbering explained (by John McGhie) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/...beringExplaine d.htm How to do it in VBA (by Dave Rado) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/...tNumbering.htm Greetinx ..bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word . . |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
trying to copy a sheet | Jeff Gyarmathy | General Discussion | 1 | September 15th, 2004 06:19 PM |
Adding styles and fonts to Word 2000 | Bob | New Users | 1 | August 14th, 2004 06:14 PM |
Styles do not change when underlying template is changed | GG | General Discussion | 8 | July 30th, 2004 10:46 AM |
How to correct and/or add styles to an existing document? | Peter Sale | Formatting Long Documents | 5 | July 25th, 2004 04:49 AM |
update styles per new template | Ellen Finkelstein | General Discussion | 10 | July 9th, 2004 05:29 PM |