Hi,


I have created a new style titled ArialBlue11

Is there some way to make this new style available to all existing documents?

If not, what is the easiest/quickest way I can import this style into an old document when I open it with Word 2013 ?

Ideally the fewer keystrokes required the better.

Best Wishes,
Dave

Hi Dave,

If you add the Style to the document's template, it will be available for all new documents based on that template. For existing documents, IIRC, the Style will also become available if you set their 'Automatically update document styles' option. This can be a two-edged sword, though, as any Styles that someone has modified in the documents will be reset to what the template says they should be. Two alternatives are:
1. Use the Organiser to copy the Style from one document/template to another; or
2. Insert an empty paragraph of that Style in a document containing it, then copy & paste that paragraph to the document(s) you want it in.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Paul has answered your question. In addition, the name of your style is one that I would apply to a character style, not a paragraph style. Normally, I name paragraph styles by function rather than by attributes.

I would urge against using the "update styles from template option." See What happens when I send my document to someone else? Will Word mess up my formatting?

You could record a macro stored in your normal.dotm template that uses the organizer to import your style(s) from the normal.dotm template to the current document. Attach that to a keyboard shortcut or a QAT shortcut. You could then use that macro whenever you wanted to import the stye(s).

See also: Understanding Styles in Microsoft Word

Thanks for your help guys!

Just to let you k ow that many of my word documents are pre 2007, so the solution above did not work for these particular documents.

Instead i opened a new 2013 document, and cut and paste contents from old files.... into the new documents, and then saved as new 2013 document. This seems to work ok.

Best Wishes,
Dave