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Old 05-03-2017, 04:19 AM
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I have a bunch of old system manuals that needs to be updated, but I can't for the life of me imagine opening each one up and changing headers/footers for each section.

I have a template saved (header and footer with logo, etc) and want to apply the standard header and footer across multiple existing word documents. so that it should change the headers and footer also in old documents along with other styles of the documents.

Possible?
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Old 05-03-2017, 10:10 AM
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Possible, yes. Simple, no. See this thread.
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...new-files.html
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Old 05-03-2017, 10:23 AM
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If all of your section header's footers are linked to previous, then create a new document with the headers/footers you want and copy the entire old document except the last paragraph mark into the new one. That should work.

You may have to create first-page/even-page/odd-page headers and footers for the new document even though it only has one page.
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This will help you analyze your documents:
Word Toolkit for Advanced Management of Word Headers and Footers
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No, my section header's are not linked to previous ones, only footers are linked to previous. I've 4 sections with different Headers with images/table.

The problem I'm facing right now is, everything else in document body is changing according to new template *.dotm, when I'm attaching a new template link.

only header/footers are not changing to new header/footers defined in .dotm file.


hope you understood. Thanks!
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The problem is that you are putting the cart before the horse. Templates are not intended to be added to documents. They are intended to be used to create new documents. Basically adding a template to an existing document will simply offer the potential of updating the styles in the document to match those similarly named styles in the template.

The headers and footers in the template are not part of the deal.

It would make more sense to copy your document content to a new document created from the template - and even then there could be issues with headers and footers especially in a document that has several sections - each of which potentially has three different header/footers.

Given that your aim is to change the headers and footers of a selection of documents, if all the documents currently have headers and footers then in order to determine how to change those headers and footers, it would be necessary to know what is in each of the header footer ranges and what you want to replace them with.

With that information available you can then produce a macro that will make the changes and if
http://www.gmayor.com/document_batch_processes.htm doesn't have a process that will work for you, you can create a process to work with it and let it handle the files.
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No, my section header's are not linked to previous ones, only footers are linked to previous. I've 4 sections with different Headers with images/table.

The problem I'm facing right now is, everything else in document body is changing according to new template *.dotm, when I'm attaching a new template link.

only header/footers are not changing to new header/footers defined in .dotm file.


hope you understood. Thanks!
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Graham is right. Look at his link.

What you do not understand is that the information in your interior (not linked) headers and footers is contained in section breaks within your documents. When you copy your document content into the new document, you are taking those headers/footers into the new document. There is no automatic process to deal with that.

If you want you can use the Word Toolkit for Advanced Management of Word Headers and Footers to see what is going on. That toolkit, though, will not "fix" the problem.

In trying to change things, Word cannot read your mind and figure out what needs to change and what needs to stay the same, you have to figure out a way to tell Word what you want.
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