Try using the Organizer (Tools Templates and Add-ins Organizer button),
select the styles, and Copy 3 times. This seems to work with styles set up
correctly as described in

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html

From your description, I'm not sure you are going about this the right way,
however. The usual way to use a template is to create a new document from
it - that way you get not only the styles but also the page layout and any
document-specific properties and option settings. To apply to an existing
document, the safest way is to copy all but the last paragraph marker into a
fresh 'shell' made from the template, and then apply styles from the
template if necessary (i.e. if the pasted text did not use the same style
names, or contained direct formatting). For bullet and numbered styles, even
if the style names match, you will generally have to Ctrl-Q to reset to
style.

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"Paul_at_Work" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have defined a set of custom styles to be shared among a number of
users,
and saved them to a dedicated template. I tried using this in another
document in 2 ways:

1) Copy the text with these styles to a fresh document based on a normal
template that has none of these styles.

2) Use Format / Theme / Style Gallery to select the special template to
"import" the custom styles.

In both cases I see that some styles get changed, most commonly (I think)
bulleted and numbered lists. I thought maybe it was because these custom
styles were based on other styles, so I updated these styles so they were
based on "nothing", and replaced the template and tried again. No luck.

Can you help?

Thanks/Paul