Managing documentation files

[daar]

I have a huge amount of Word documents (around 1000) that I would like to manage regarding the style. Currently each document has it's own style settings but if possible I would like to manage that centrally somewhere. Kinda like CSS does for HTML. What would be the best approach for this? Using a template would not work IMHO as the "link" is broken once the template is assigned. So changes in the header or footer in the template are not updated automatically. I have been thinking about using VBA to copy the body of the documents into a "template document" for each file after a change. However this seems error prone. Also I am not sure I would be able to handle text and table styles properly this way.



What alternatives and suggestions are there for me?