The problem you are describing should only occur when the attached
template is normal.dot. If a custom template is missing, Word won't
start updating styles from normal.dot. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matChange.html.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message
...
See Robert Franz's response for detailed ideas on how to handle
multiple
documents. I am writing just to point out that generally you want to
leave
that box to update styles unchecked. Otherwise you will get very
strange
results when your documents can't find their attached templates (as
in you
change servers or send the document to a different computer). In
that case,
they attach to the local normal.dot and update their styles to match
that
normal.dot.
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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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For new styles to be added, or old styles to update, from the
template
the "Automatically update document styles" option must be checked
in
ToolsTemplates and Add-Ins, for the relevant documents.

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"Jean Pereira" wrote in message
...
I have added 6 more outline numbered styles to a template which
is
attached
to all our documents.

Whilst the new styles are visible when creating new docs based
using
this
template, they are not available when editing previous docs
created
using the
older version of the same template. I thought that when you open
an
existing
doc, the new styles would automatically be available once the
template was
updated.

The only way I can get them attached is by going into the
organiser
and
copying over the styles from the template in the template
directory
to the
actual doc.

Is there an alternative way to handle this as there are thousands
to
precedents we need to have these new styles available in?

Thanks in advance.