Hey! That's just what I needed.

I know its something in the template because the book consisted of many
chapters and every chapter was always fine until I attached the template. It
would keep crashing until I removed the template. I had many times where I
would scream four letter words in the middle of the night b/c all my work
would get lost (that when I started pressing Ctl-S after every paragraph). I
even sent the template to a top Word expert to get rid of whatever bug/macro
error/whatever it was and they coudn't get it working either (even after all
the tricks to clean it and export to a new template). Anyway, your answer
told me exactly what I needed to know and now I'll be able to use a new
computer and never have that template haunt me again.

Thanks! :-)

Brian


"Jezebel" wrote in message
...
If by 'formats' you mean styles, you can simply print them out if you
are
able to open either the template or the document based on it: select
'Styles' from the 'Print What' dropdown on the Print dialog.

However, you don't really need to do this. Just copy the document to the
new
computer. It will contain the styles anyway. Or you can use the
organiser to
copy the styles from the document (or indeed the old template) to a new
document or template.

I can understand your not wanting to revisit the old template. But
unless
the template has code in it or seriously large quantities of Autotext
and
similar, why do you think the crashing was caused by the template rather
than the document itself? Corrupt documents -- particularly when
large --
are much more common than corrupt templates.




"Brian Bischof" wrote in message
...
I had a template for a project a while back that had the proper layout
but
for some reason it was very buggy and kept crashing Word. I spent a
lot of
time on this newsgroup trying to fix it and even sent the template to
an
expert for review. Nothing worked and I managed to finish the project
with
a
few strands of hair left. Now I need to work on the document again and
I
want to avoid this template at all costs. I'm going to install Word
2003
on
a brand new computer and create a new template from scratch. Is there
a
way
I can document the properties of the old template so I can just add
all
the
formatting into a new Word 2003 template? My problems last year were
so
nightmarish (it was a large book that crashed every couple of
minutes),
that
I can't risk repeating them.

Also, please don't send me suggestions on fixing the old template. I
spent
way too much time with way too many people to repeat that process
again. I
just want to start from scratch this time.

Any ideas for documenting the formats in a template?

Thanks,

Brian Bischof
www.CrystalReportsBook.com