Hi Charles,

First, thanks for the heads up 2016 grammar checking, I did not know! I do have 2013 on my laptop so will do some comparing.

Thanks also for your advice, I do take it all to heart. I am an IT data consultant so I would say <5% of my time is spent in Word. Again just writing letters and guides to what I am currently working on. Also I am often working at clients sites so have to use whatever they have.

I do think I understand Styles and I think I understand the need to use those styles built into Word, e.g. normal, headings 1-5, though yesterday I did create my own 'List Bullet' style following advice on various sites.

As for themes, currently my need is to create documents now, as in this weekend/week so set up time is limited. I currently have my normal.dotm file setup so I can go ahead and do what I need for now.

That being said I am looking at getting involved in another venture which would more than likely need different styles. This looks ideal for themes, e.g. I assume I could set up a theme for Company 1 and a theme for Company 2 and switch between them as needed. Yes?

I do have a follow-up question, which might be best as another thread but since I have your attention ;-)

I now want to setup another template for User Guides. This template will contain actual content, e.g. specific sections and text common to all guides. However I would want it to use all the styles from normal.dotm and if I change the normal.dotm I would want the styles in my user guide template to be updated.

If I create a new document from the normal.dotm and then SAVE AS UserGuide.dotm are those templates still linked?

Thanks
Steve