Originally Posted by webdevguy

I have a 200+ page document with many custom styles. I want to create individual files for each of the chapters and maintain the styles from one location, using a template.

So here's what I did: Create a new template called "MyTemplate" with all the styles, etc.... Break up each chapter into their own individual document and attach the new "MyTemplate" so that the styles can be controlled from one location.

To create the individual files I created a new document based on "MyTemplate" and copy/paste a chapter from the original document.



The problem is: When I go into MyTemplate and modify a font-size of a style this change is not reflected in the new file, even though "Automatically update document styles" is checked in "Templates and Add-ins. Any idea why??? Thanks

Using Word 2011 for MAC.

Originally Posted by Charles Kenyon

Are you sure that the font-size in the original text is set in the style and not through direct formatting?

BTW, keeping automatically update styles from template checked is the source of problems when documents are sent to a different computer. What happens when I send my document to someone else? Will Word mess up my formatting?

I'm not sure why you are breaking your chapters into separate files. Word will handle much larger documents than 200 pages. The largest I've put together was 10,000 pages +. You do want to use heading styles and the navigation pane to navigate a larger document.

Originally Posted by webdevguy

Thanks everyone for your feedback and suggestions. When I was using the document thru OneDrive on my iPad it seemed to lag a bit when I typed. Also, it was a pain scrolling pages. (There's no easy way to jump to a page as I see so far.) That's why I wanted to split up the files to make them more manageable.