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best way to regularize existing documents?
Hi folks
I have about 20 Word97 docs of 1-12 pages each. They all have the same look & feel, but this has been achieved by manual formatting. I want to get all 20 documents to share a common set of formatting directives of some kind. I'm familiar with the use of style sheets in a single document, but I'm not clear how to get a group of existing documents to share a common set of styles. Is styles the way to go for this? Should I pick one document, create & apply some suitable styles, then apply those styles manually to all the other documents? I just need a quick hint on the best way to go. TIA, TC |
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Using Styles is the way to go, but that won't make it simple or easy.
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm. You can import the styles from one document or template to another using the Organizer. Pay attention to the steps set out in the above article if you do so. You will still need to go through each document and applay the styles to your text. Once you have done this you will find, among other things, that you can cut and paste between your documents with few surprises on your formatting. You can also attach your documents to a common template and use that template to maintain your styles. However, do not keep the option checked in your documents to update styles from the template automatically. -- 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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "TC" wrote in message ups.com... Hi folks I have about 20 Word97 docs of 1-12 pages each. They all have the same look & feel, but this has been achieved by manual formatting. I want to get all 20 documents to share a common set of formatting directives of some kind. I'm familiar with the use of style sheets in a single document, but I'm not clear how to get a group of existing documents to share a common set of styles. Is styles the way to go for this? Should I pick one document, create & apply some suitable styles, then apply those styles manually to all the other documents? I just need a quick hint on the best way to go. TIA, TC |
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Ok, good stuff, thanks.
TC |
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