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Can you make a document automatically update changes styles template?
This is a sister thread to:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...ing-first.html I'm making a change to my workflow, so the body text will have its own, well, "Body Text" style, and the "Normal" style will be reserved for use as template for other non-body text styles. Having made the changes in one of my manuscript, I've copied these new styles to the Normal.DOT. But when I open my other manuscripts, these style changes in the Normal.DOT are not dynamically reflected in the documents based on the Normal.DOT. I have to import them into each document from the Normal.DOT. Is there a way to make this happen automatically by option? |
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To have the styles in a document update to match the attached template, select "Automatically update document styles" in Tools | Templates and Add-Ins (for the relevant documents).
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Generally speaking, you will want to go back to each document you do this in and turn this option off! As I said in answer to your parallel question: One final point is to make sure that any document you use as the basis for a template does NOT have the option checked to update styles from the template. (Tools > Templates and Add-Ins) See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matchange.html.
This is a maintenance tool, not a setting that should be set and left on. |
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The whole Styles / Template area really needs a re-vamp.
Surely the idea of Styles in a template is that you update them once and then every other document that uses that Template has all the latest styles. But No, you have to import them all MANUALLY. |
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It is also possible to have a global stylesheet. A Global StyleSheet in Microsoft Word? Understanding Styles in Microsoft Word One thing is that a document should be like a piece of paper in a file. You should not be using it to create new documents. For new documents you should be using a template. Templates in Microsoft Word If you were, the new documents would have the template's styles when created. If you have boilerplate text you want in many documents, you should explore Word's features designed for that purpose, not reuse documents. Automated Boilerplate Using Microsoft Word By the way, no one answering questions here works for Microsoft. We are your fellow users. |
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You may have files that have been archived years ago. Do you really want them to change as soon as you update their template? That said, I agree in part: some aspects of style management are convoluted in Word. There are too many places to look (Styles pane, Manage Styles dialog box, etc.). In other words, some changes would be a good idea.
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Thanks for the replies. I will study those links.
But MY IDEA of styles is that if you have lots of documents based on a template. If you change the styles in that template, then all of the documents should be updated to that style. This would apply in a company, where the manager decides that from now "we will use Tachoma font in all of our documents." Or in my case where I have 20 documents, based on one template and I now wish to change one of the styles. (Sure any new documents will confirm to my new style, but what about the other 20 documents that I created last month? |
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Suggestions for Microsoft can be posted in the Uservoice forum at http://word.uservoice.com.
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