Hi Dale,
Something you can try (although it might not be satisfactory if any numbering is
involved) would be to set the destination document to "Automatically update
document styles". This tells the document when it opens to check the style
definitions in the attached template and overwrite any that have changed. This
option is found in the Templates dialog box (the Developer tab of the Ribbon).
Hi, Im using Word 2007 and I have what is probably a very basic question
about copying styles and/or text from one document to another. What I need
to do is copy text from one Word document into a new document shell. Both
documents have some style names in common, but the formatting of those styles
is different. I want the text from the source document to take on the style
formatting of the destination document. I have €śUse Destination Styles€ť as
the option in the Word options section where it says €śPasting between
documents when style definitions conflict€ť, but the styles still retain the
formatting of the source document and the definition of the style in the
destination document is automatically modified to be like the style with the
same name in the source document. Some experimentation seems to indicate
that it will only match the destination styles formatting if that style has
already been used in the destination document prior to the copy and pasting.
So, then I thought I would try a different approach and just copy the styles
from the template that the new document is based on. The problem with that
is that once again it seems that you have to actually have used the styles in
the template before they will appear in the €śCopy from€ť list in the Organizer.
Im just not sure of the best way to accomplish any of this right now. It
seems like it should be a simple thing. I feel like I must be missing
something really obvious or some option that has to be checked somewhere.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance for any information.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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