Thread: [Solved] Styles: Only this document option
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Old 06-27-2016, 12:35 PM
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You are misunderstanding the options. "Only this document" creates (or modifies) a style in the current file only. This option is always selected when you (re-)visit the Modify Style dialog box.

"New documents based on this template" adds the style to the attached template (which is often the Normal template unless you specifically created the document based on another template).

The style will be copied to the template exactly once. No link is maintained between a style and the template from which the document was originally created.

To put it a bit differently, "New documents based on this template" is never sticky, which is by design. Each time you want to transfer a modified version of a style, you have to explicitly select "New documents based on this template."
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