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"Available Styles" in Styles and Formatting Pane - how to control
In Word 2003 SP3, On Win XP SP3...
Is it possible, when attaching an alternate template to an existing document, to view ONLY the Styles associated with the new template, so that conversion to the new Styles is unambiguous? It seems that no matter what we try, Styles which are part of the source document, ALSO appear in the Styles and Formatting pane, in addition to those defined in the newly-attached template. We would like to only have the Styles associated with the new template appear in the pane, so that our document editors are not confused as to the appropriate Styles to apply when making revisions to legacy documents. It seems as though the template gets merged with attributes from whatever document the template gets atached to. Once the new template is attached to the document, the option to "Automatically update document styles" is checked. This changes much of the legacy document immediately, but for efficient conversion to the Styles specified in the new attached template, we would like to only see the Styles of the template in the Styles and Formatting pane. Is there a way to limit the Available Styles, or All Styles, drop down options in the pane to show ONLY those of the attached template??? V2 |
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"Available Styles" in Styles and Formatting Pane - how to control
The only solution that I can think is to 'neutralise' this is to paste and
select 'Use Destination Styles' or possibly 'Text Only' options from the Copy/Paste smart tag. Then apply one of the relevant 'Styles in Use' in the destination template. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "v2win" wrote in message ... In Word 2003 SP3, On Win XP SP3... Is it possible, when attaching an alternate template to an existing document, to view ONLY the Styles associated with the new template, so that conversion to the new Styles is unambiguous? It seems that no matter what we try, Styles which are part of the source document, ALSO appear in the Styles and Formatting pane, in addition to those defined in the newly-attached template. We would like to only have the Styles associated with the new template appear in the pane, so that our document editors are not confused as to the appropriate Styles to apply when making revisions to legacy documents. It seems as though the template gets merged with attributes from whatever document the template gets atached to. Once the new template is attached to the document, the option to "Automatically update document styles" is checked. This changes much of the legacy document immediately, but for efficient conversion to the Styles specified in the new attached template, we would like to only see the Styles of the template in the Styles and Formatting pane. Is there a way to limit the Available Styles, or All Styles, drop down options in the pane to show ONLY those of the attached template??? V2 |
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"Available Styles" in Styles and Formatting Pane - how to control
I'm going from memory here but, even if you have limited the styles shown in
your template, those settings will not carry over to the document when the template is attached to an existing document. But in a new document based on your template, the settings will hold. And you can then paste all but the last paragraph mark of the source document into it. Pam v2win wrote: In Word 2003 SP3, On Win XP SP3... Is it possible, when attaching an alternate template to an existing document, to view ONLY the Styles associated with the new template, so that conversion to the new Styles is unambiguous? It seems that no matter what we try, Styles which are part of the source document, ALSO appear in the Styles and Formatting pane, in addition to those defined in the newly-attached template. We would like to only have the Styles associated with the new template appear in the pane, so that our document editors are not confused as to the appropriate Styles to apply when making revisions to legacy documents. It seems as though the template gets merged with attributes from whatever document the template gets atached to. Once the new template is attached to the document, the option to "Automatically update document styles" is checked. This changes much of the legacy document immediately, but for efficient conversion to the Styles specified in the new attached template, we would like to only see the Styles of the template in the Styles and Formatting pane. Is there a way to limit the Available Styles, or All Styles, drop down options in the pane to show ONLY those of the attached template??? V2 -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ayout/200907/1 |
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