This isn't how templates work in Word. Sorry.

Creating a new document based on the new template is the only
straight-forward way to get new content (margins, spacings, headers/footers,
logos, text) from that template. If you use styles to format your text, and
the same styles appear in both, pasting the old text into a new document
based on the new template will reformat the text to the new styles. Direct
formatting, as you've observed, complicates things.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Peter Longstaff" peter_dot_longstaff@nowhere_dot_com wrote in message
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Hi All,

I have a large document that was created with the companies OLD template.
I
now want to "update" to the new company template (different fonts,
spacings, logo etc).

If I simply cut and paste the contents of the document the tables, images
etc are not aligned correctly etc.

Does anyone know if I can simply apply a template to a document, as you
can
in PowerPoint?

TIA
Peter