Thanks for the advice. So I guess this means I´ll have to work my way through formatting the whole book over again in the new document, applying every title and chapter to the appropriate style? That´s why I figured I could make the transition a bit easyer if the main styles were already applied in the master-file, which would in the end have most of the styles/settings that the new template will have. But maybe you´re right! What about inserted pictures (only black and white drawings, mostly ".tif"), do I paste them also along with the whole text?