Possible to export individual styles to a template and then to import from it into a document?

We're constantly getting other departments' edits of a whole host of
manuals that are produced by us. Word is esp difficult when doing
clean-ups of this kind; and what also doesn't help is that in this
dept, they've chosen a non-standard way of formatting for these
manuals that is not very similar to what you see everywhere! sigh
g

I'm hoping that there's a way to create a master out of one of the
clean documents we finished some time back. We would go in and
carefully rename the styles as the names can vary somewhat from manual
to manual even though the formatting is correct. Once that's done,
and we were everything is correct, then it would be ideal if we could
then just export the styles needed into a master template for the
manuals and then to use that master by importing the needed styles,
one-by-one or all, as the case might be, into the document we're
converting to the regulation formatting. (Lordy but if that can be
done, that would really be tremendous!)

Is there a way to do this? I'm sorry to say that at work it's so
difficult to find the time to really search for solutions to problems,
but I did try although I wasn't successful in finding out if this can
be done in the way we need.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to the best approach to
export all needed styles to a template and then to import from it as
needed??

Thanks so much!

Use the Organizer to copy styles between templates.




"StargateFan" wrote in message
...
We're constantly getting other departments' edits of a whole host of
manuals that are produced by us. Word is esp difficult when doing
clean-ups of this kind; and what also doesn't help is that in this
dept, they've chosen a non-standard way of formatting for these
manuals that is not very similar to what you see everywhere! sigh
g

I'm hoping that there's a way to create a master out of one of the
clean documents we finished some time back. We would go in and
carefully rename the styles as the names can vary somewhat from manual
to manual even though the formatting is correct. Once that's done,
and we were everything is correct, then it would be ideal if we could
then just export the styles needed into a master template for the
manuals and then to use that master by importing the needed styles,
one-by-one or all, as the case might be, into the document we're
converting to the regulation formatting. (Lordy but if that can be
done, that would really be tremendous!)

Is there a way to do this? I'm sorry to say that at work it's so
difficult to find the time to really search for solutions to problems,
but I did try although I wasn't successful in finding out if this can
be done in the way we need.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to the best approach to
export all needed styles to a template and then to import from it as
needed??

Thanks so much!

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:37:42 +1000, "Jezebel"
wrote:

Use the Organizer to copy styles between templates.

Super, I can see how that would work. I don't have any templates at
home that have styles in them so nothing but normal.dot shows up
there, but it certainly looks promising.

I wanted to add an icon to my toolbar that would bring up the
organizer box directly but I didn't see it listed in the "commands"
tab for customizing a toolbar. Is it there? If not, does anyone
happen to know the line of VBA coding that would bring up the
organizer box (it seems only available once you have the STYLES... box
up, otherwise).

Thanks!

"StargateFan" wrote in message
.. .
We're constantly getting other departments' edits of a whole host of
manuals that are produced by us. Word is esp difficult when doing
clean-ups of this kind; and what also doesn't help is that in this
dept, they've chosen a non-standard way of formatting for these
manuals that is not very similar to what you see everywhere! sigh
g

I'm hoping that there's a way to create a master out of one of the
clean documents we finished some time back. We would go in and
carefully rename the styles as the names can vary somewhat from manual
to manual even though the formatting is correct. Once that's done,
and we were everything is correct, then it would be ideal if we could
then just export the styles needed into a master template for the
manuals and then to use that master by importing the needed styles,
one-by-one or all, as the case might be, into the document we're
converting to the regulation formatting. (Lordy but if that can be
done, that would really be tremendous!)

Is there a way to do this? I'm sorry to say that at work it's so
difficult to find the time to really search for solutions to problems,
but I did try although I wasn't successful in finding out if this can
be done in the way we need.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to the best approach to
export all needed styles to a template and then to import from it as
needed??

Thanks so much!

Dialogs(wdDialogOrganizer).Show


"StargateFan" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:37:42 +1000, "Jezebel"
wrote:

Use the Organizer to copy styles between templates.

Super, I can see how that would work. I don't have any templates at
home that have styles in them so nothing but normal.dot shows up
there, but it certainly looks promising.

I wanted to add an icon to my toolbar that would bring up the
organizer box directly but I didn't see it listed in the "commands"
tab for customizing a toolbar. Is it there? If not, does anyone
happen to know the line of VBA coding that would bring up the
organizer box (it seems only available once you have the STYLES... box
up, otherwise).

Thanks!

"StargateFan" wrote in message
.. .
We're constantly getting other departments' edits of a whole host of
manuals that are produced by us. Word is esp difficult when doing
clean-ups of this kind; and what also doesn't help is that in this
dept, they've chosen a non-standard way of formatting for these
manuals that is not very similar to what you see everywhere! sigh
g

I'm hoping that there's a way to create a master out of one of the
clean documents we finished some time back. We would go in and
carefully rename the styles as the names can vary somewhat from manual
to manual even though the formatting is correct. Once that's done,
and we were everything is correct, then it would be ideal if we could
then just export the styles needed into a master template for the
manuals and then to use that master by importing the needed styles,
one-by-one or all, as the case might be, into the document we're
converting to the regulation formatting. (Lordy but if that can be
done, that would really be tremendous!)

Is there a way to do this? I'm sorry to say that at work it's so
difficult to find the time to really search for solutions to problems,
but I did try although I wasn't successful in finding out if this can
be done in the way we need.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to the best approach to
export all needed styles to a template and then to import from it as
needed??

Thanks so much!

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 21:49:17 +1000, "Jezebel"
wrote:

Dialogs(wdDialogOrganizer).Show

Kewl; thhanks.

"StargateFan" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:37:42 +1000, "Jezebel"
wrote:

Use the Organizer to copy styles between templates.

[snip]

If not, does anyone
happen to know the line of VBA coding that would bring up the
organizer box (it seems only available once you have the STYLES... box
up, otherwise).

[snip]

If not, does anyone
happen to know the line of VBA coding that would bring up the
organizer box (it seems only available once you have the STYLES... box
up, otherwise).

Dialogs(wdDialogOrganizer).Show


Or with the Customize Dialog Box open, go to ToolsOrganizer and (holding
down the Control Key so it makes a copy instead of just a move) drag it to
your toolbar. You'll get to keep the Organizer icon.

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 21:45:29 GMT, AA wrote:



If not, does anyone
happen to know the line of VBA coding that would bring up the
organizer box (it seems only available once you have the STYLES... box
up, otherwise).

Dialogs(wdDialogOrganizer).Show


Or with the Customize Dialog Box open, go to ToolsOrganizer and (holding
down the Control Key so it makes a copy instead of just a move) drag it to
your toolbar. You'll get to keep the Organizer icon.

That trick is just TOO kewl for words. All these years and I never
knew that trick!

The only hitch is that the "organizer" function isn't found under
TOOLS in my version (MS Word 2000 v9.0.2720). That trick works on
anything that is found under a pulldown menu but not something
accessed from a pulldown, i.e., a secondary box such as the Organizer
one is. To get it, I have to click through FORMAT STYLE ORGANIZER
button. This way of using the copy-and-drag trick only works for 2
levels, not 3 like this one is.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

The only hitch is that the "organizer" function isn't found under
TOOLS in my version (MS Word 2000 v9.0.2720). That trick works on
anything that is found under a pulldown menu but not something
accessed from a pulldown, i.e., a secondary box such as the Organizer
one is. To get it, I have to click through FORMAT STYLE ORGANIZER
button. This way of using the copy-and-drag trick only works for 2
levels, not 3 like this one is.


The only version of Word I know about is 2002, so I don't know what
isn't included in 2000.

This works in 2002:

ToolsCustomizeCommands, in the Categories: window select "All
Commands" and then in the Commands: window find "Organizer". Drag it
out to a toolbar.

AA wrote:
The only hitch is that the "organizer" function isn't found under
TOOLS in my version (MS Word 2000 v9.0.2720). That trick works on
anything that is found under a pulldown menu but not something
accessed from a pulldown, i.e., a secondary box such as the Organizer
one is. To get it, I have to click through FORMAT STYLE
ORGANIZER button. This way of using the copy-and-drag trick only
works for 2 levels, not 3 like this one is.


The only version of Word I know about is 2002, so I don't know what
isn't included in 2000.

This works in 2002:

ToolsCustomizeCommands, in the Categories: window select "All
Commands" and then in the Commands: window find "Organizer". Drag it
out to a toolbar.

That should work for Word 2000 also.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word

I couldn't find the other msg in this thread here at the
ms ng site.

I have a question re Organizer. I just tried testing it
and found a serious problem that I'll need to find a
workaround for.

Unless I'm doing something horribly wrong it seems that
the styles go from a DOC to a TEMPLATE _only_. This is
really tough. What is needed is for styles to
be "importable" from a TEMPLATE to a DOC (although,
granted, the left-hand side accepts NORMAL.DOT. But we
will not be saving the highly specialized styles for the
manuals in NORMAL.DOT; this would not be good. We'd save
it to something like "MANUALS DEFAULT CODING.dot" or
whatever. But none of the templates in the same folder
with the NORMAL.DOT show up "STYLES AVAILABLE IN:"
pulldown so our MANUALS one in all probability wouldn't
either.

So, okay, it seems that the only thing we can do for that
part (though it seems excessivly silly, but what can we
do??) is to open the MANUALS template and _then_ open the
organizer.

But I'm _STILL_ stuck, it seems with saving to NORMAL.DOT
(???)

sigh

What can we do to fix this? or what am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 21:45:29 GMT, AA
wrote:



If not, does anyone
happen to know the line of VBA coding that would
bring up the
organizer box (it seems only available once you
have the STYLES... box
up, otherwise).

Dialogs(wdDialogOrganizer).Show


Or with the Customize Dialog Box open, go to
ToolsOrganizer and (holding
down the Control Key so it makes a copy instead of just
a move) drag it to
your toolbar. You'll get to keep the Organizer icon.

That trick is just TOO kewl for words. All these years
and I never
knew that trick!

The only hitch is that the "organizer" function isn't
found under
TOOLS in my version (MS Word 2000 v9.0.2720). That trick
works on
anything that is found under a pulldown menu but not
something
accessed from a pulldown, i.e., a secondary box such as
the Organizer
one is. To get it, I have to click through FORMAT
STYLE ORGANIZER
button. This way of using the copy-and-drag trick only
works for 2
levels, not 3 like this one is.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

.