I write documents for various companies and they all have their own design styles. To make this easy I need to create a set of styles for headings, fonts colours etc for each company. Then I want to have that button (name of company) on my style list so when I start to write for a specific company, I just click that style button and the document is formatted according to their style.
I have created a style but when I start a new blank document that style is not on the Styles List.
That style i just created appears on the styles list of the document if I reopen it, so it has been saved.


What is going wrong?

To control the display order on the Quick Styles panel, see: http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...s-gallery.html

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Ok thanks macropod, got me a bit further but the main objective is to be able to open a new blank document write a document for a company XYZ, (which has a specific style guide), click on a button in the Styles group and magically change all the fonts and headings to the specified style. It seems Word 2007 cannot do that.
I can open an old document (for testing purposes) and apply XYZ styles but to be able to change style i have to select text and then change it to the required style. If I have a 10 page document it just seems so clumsy...

Create a separate template for each company. Use that template as the basis for new documents for the company. That is one of the purposes of templates.
Templates in Microsoft Word
Understanding Styles in Microsoft Word

You want to have your styles set up so that you have a style for the following paragraph defined. This will make it easier to put your styles to use.

Word doesn't do magic, but it does provide all the tools you need.

As Charles indicated, what you should be doing is using a separate template for each company with the Styles in a given template formatted accoring to that company's requirements. That way, when you create a new document for company ABC, using the ABC letter template, all the required Styles will be there, with the required page layout and paragraph formatting. Use the ABC memo template and the page layout and paragraph formatting for an ABC company memo will be there. For company XYZ, you'd use equivalent templates specific to that company.

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Thanks for your responses, I think the template is the way to go. I originally tried the Styles because I usually get a generic document with some text already inserted which I edit including the styles. It would have been easy just to click on a button and change the style of the document to what I want. With Templates I need to copy and paste the text then start formatting... I guess that's what I need to do.

Thanks again.

If you have generic text, simply make that part of the template concerned, with the appropriate Styles applied. Templates don't have to be blank - they can contain as much text, tables & images as you need.

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Thereby confusing the heck out of people who think of layout stylesheets and content templates as separate aspects of a document <rofl>