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How can I update multiple documents?
I must be missing something. I am trying to make a template that can be used
for multiple documents. I want this template's layout, letterhead text, graphics and any other formatting to be used for a letterhead. The only graphic is the company logo. When I create a new document from this template and then modify the template, the layout changes are not reflected in the document I created from the template. I also have many other documents that I would like to apply this template to. When I try applying the template to these other documents, the styles are copied but none of the layout, graphics or text are applied. Is there any way to create a master template that can be applied to new and old document that will insert a completely new page layout? I'm used to using HTML programs that let you modify a template which in turn modifies all the pages based on that template, including the graphics, tables, and all other templated layout features. I'm using Word 2002. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Sorry. No. You'd probably need quite a bit of VBA code to alter all of your
documents in this manner, unless they were all created exactly the same. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "hawc2k2" wrote in message ... I must be missing something. I am trying to make a template that can be used for multiple documents. I want this template's layout, letterhead text, graphics and any other formatting to be used for a letterhead. The only graphic is the company logo. When I create a new document from this template and then modify the template, the layout changes are not reflected in the document I created from the template. I also have many other documents that I would like to apply this template to. When I try applying the template to these other documents, the styles are copied but none of the layout, graphics or text are applied. Is there any way to create a master template that can be applied to new and old document that will insert a completely new page layout? I'm used to using HTML programs that let you modify a template which in turn modifies all the pages based on that template, including the graphics, tables, and all other templated layout features. I'm using Word 2002. Any help would be appreciated. |
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:41:04 -0700, "hawc2k2"
wrote: I must be missing something. I am trying to make a template that can be used for multiple documents. I want this template's layout, letterhead text, graphics and any other formatting to be used for a letterhead. The only graphic is the company logo. When I create a new document from this template and then modify the template, the layout changes are not reflected in the document I created from the template. I also have many other documents that I would like to apply this template to. When I try applying the template to these other documents, the styles are copied but none of the layout, graphics or text are applied. Is there any way to create a master template that can be applied to new and old document that will insert a completely new page layout? I'm used to using HTML programs that let you modify a template which in turn modifies all the pages based on that template, including the graphics, tables, and all other templated layout features. I'm using Word 2002. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry, Word just doesn't work that way. A new document receives its content (if any), styles, and page layout from its template, and then the umbilical cord is severed. You can force styles to update from a modified (or other) template, but nothing else. It most definitely does *not* work like your HTML programs. More explanation is at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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"Jay Freedman" wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:41:04 -0700, "hawc2k2" wrote: I must be missing something. I am trying to make a template that can be used for multiple documents. I want this template's layout, letterhead text, graphics and any other formatting to be used for a letterhead. The only graphic is the company logo. When I create a new document from this template and then modify the template, the layout changes are not reflected in the document I created from the template. I also have many other documents that I would like to apply this template to. When I try applying the template to these other documents, the styles are copied but none of the layout, graphics or text are applied. Is there any way to create a master template that can be applied to new and old document that will insert a completely new page layout? I'm used to using HTML programs that let you modify a template which in turn modifies all the pages based on that template, including the graphics, tables, and all other templated layout features. I'm using Word 2002. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry, Word just doesn't work that way. A new document receives its content (if any), styles, and page layout from its template, and then the umbilical cord is severed. You can force styles to update from a modified (or other) template, but nothing else. It most definitely does *not* work like your HTML programs. More explanation is at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Hi Jay,
Thanks so much for your reply. At least I will stop spending my time trying to figure out if this can be done. My main intent was to update my fathers business documents with his new letter head but it sounds like this has to be done manually. Thanks again! "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:41:04 -0700, "hawc2k2" wrote: I must be missing something. I am trying to make a template that can be used for multiple documents. I want this template's layout, letterhead text, graphics and any other formatting to be used for a letterhead. The only graphic is the company logo. When I create a new document from this template and then modify the template, the layout changes are not reflected in the document I created from the template. I also have many other documents that I would like to apply this template to. When I try applying the template to these other documents, the styles are copied but none of the layout, graphics or text are applied. Is there any way to create a master template that can be applied to new and old document that will insert a completely new page layout? I'm used to using HTML programs that let you modify a template which in turn modifies all the pages based on that template, including the graphics, tables, and all other templated layout features. I'm using Word 2002. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry, Word just doesn't work that way. A new document receives its content (if any), styles, and page layout from its template, and then the umbilical cord is severed. You can force styles to update from a modified (or other) template, but nothing else. It most definitely does *not* work like your HTML programs. More explanation is at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Hi Anne,
Thanks so much for the reply. I do some VBscripting but haven't gotten into VBA yet. My main goal was to automate the updating of my fathers business letterhead throughout his documents, but it sounds like it is easier to do it manually. This may be a crossover to the programming forum but I'm a little confused by something I read a while back that Office was using XML extensively. I was hoping this would give me tha ability to mark certian aspects of documents as data and then apply a stylesheet or template to them that would update all the other elements. Does anybody know anything about this? Does 2003 offer any of the functionality I'm looking for? Thanks again! "Anne Troy" wrote: Sorry. No. You'd probably need quite a bit of VBA code to alter all of your documents in this manner, unless they were all created exactly the same. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "hawc2k2" wrote in message ... I must be missing something. I am trying to make a template that can be used for multiple documents. I want this template's layout, letterhead text, graphics and any other formatting to be used for a letterhead. The only graphic is the company logo. When I create a new document from this template and then modify the template, the layout changes are not reflected in the document I created from the template. I also have many other documents that I would like to apply this template to. When I try applying the template to these other documents, the styles are copied but none of the layout, graphics or text are applied. Is there any way to create a master template that can be applied to new and old document that will insert a completely new page layout? I'm used to using HTML programs that let you modify a template which in turn modifies all the pages based on that template, including the graphics, tables, and all other templated layout features. I'm using Word 2002. Any help would be appreciated. |
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If you save your content as AutoText entries in your template and display
that content in your template (and resulting documents) as AutoText fields and update the fields, you can get the update content in old documents. I create new templates for each form letter, I never create a new document from an old document (instead of a template) more than once. Because I want my saved letters to be what I sent out, I do not have saved letters update to new content. I do have the templates those letters are based upon grab new content from a central location, though, when a new document is created from them. This could be done with AutoText and macros, I use bookmarks in a primary template combined with AutoNew macros. -- 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. "hawc2k2" wrote in message ... I must be missing something. I am trying to make a template that can be used for multiple documents. I want this template's layout, letterhead text, graphics and any other formatting to be used for a letterhead. The only graphic is the company logo. When I create a new document from this template and then modify the template, the layout changes are not reflected in the document I created from the template. I also have many other documents that I would like to apply this template to. When I try applying the template to these other documents, the styles are copied but none of the layout, graphics or text are applied. Is there any way to create a master template that can be applied to new and old document that will insert a completely new page layout? I'm used to using HTML programs that let you modify a template which in turn modifies all the pages based on that template, including the graphics, tables, and all other templated layout features. I'm using Word 2002. Any help would be appreciated. |
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