[veronius]

I am sick to death of creating new styles that would save me tons of effort
reformatting all the time, only to have them NOWHERE TO BE FOUND the next
time I need them. What happens to a new style when I create it??? What
impossibly esoteric and arcane directory does it get saved in???

[Peter T. Daniels]

It should be saved in your normal.dot or normal.dotm (depending on
version of Word) template, unless the checkboxes about where to save
it have been changed, and thereafter it will appear in all new
documents based on that template. It's also possible to create new
styles that aren't saved to a template but only in the document for
which they are created.

On Nov 24, 6:08*pm, veronius
wrote:
I am sick to death of creating new styles that would save me tons of effort
reformatting all the time, only to have them NOWHERE TO BE FOUND the next
time I need them. What happens to a new style when I create it??? What
impossibly esoteric and arcane directory does it get saved in???

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unless you explicitly opted to save the new style to the attached template
(by default this would be Normal.dot or Normal.dotm), the style is saved
only in your document and will not be available to new documents.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"veronius" wrote in message
...
I am sick to death of creating new styles that would save me tons of effort
reformatting all the time, only to have them NOWHERE TO BE FOUND the next
time I need them. What happens to a new style when I create it??? What
impossibly esoteric and arcane directory does it get saved in???

[Graham Mayor]

Open the document and use the Organiser (Alt+F8 Organizer) to copy
style(s) from document to template.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



veronius wrote:
I am sick to death of creating new styles that would save me tons of
effort reformatting all the time, only to have them NOWHERE TO BE
FOUND the next time I need them. What happens to a new style when I
create it??? What impossibly esoteric and arcane directory does it
get saved in???

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Given the headache of navigating the Organizer, I think it would be a lot
easier to right-click on the style, choose Modify, and then check the box
for "Add to template" or the radio button to save the style in the template
(can't remember the exact wording) in Word 2007.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Open the document and use the Organiser (Alt+F8 Organizer) to copy
style(s) from document to template.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



veronius wrote:
I am sick to death of creating new styles that would save me tons of
effort reformatting all the time, only to have them NOWHERE TO BE
FOUND the next time I need them. What happens to a new style when I
create it??? What impossibly esoteric and arcane directory does it
get saved in???

[Graham Mayor]

I am not sure what you mean by headache, but the OP already has the styles
in documents. This is mearely a means to store them without the need to
recreate them.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Given the headache of navigating the Organizer, I think it would be a
lot easier to right-click on the style, choose Modify, and then check
the box for "Add to template" or the radio button to save the style
in the template (can't remember the exact wording) in Word 2007.


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Open the document and use the Organiser (Alt+F8 Organizer) to copy
style(s) from document to template.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



veronius wrote:
I am sick to death of creating new styles that would save me tons of
effort reformatting all the time, only to have them NOWHERE TO BE
FOUND the next time I need them. What happens to a new style when I
create it??? What impossibly esoteric and arcane directory does it
get saved in???

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, provided the Organizer opens with the active document and its attached
template suggested, I suppose it's easy enough. It's when you are trying to
copy styles from one template to another that it becomes a pain. But my
method also doesn't require recreating them, just checking the box while the
Modify dialog is open, then clicking OK.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
I am not sure what you mean by headache, but the OP already has the styles
in documents. This is mearely a means to store them without the need to
recreate them.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Given the headache of navigating the Organizer, I think it would be a
lot easier to right-click on the style, choose Modify, and then check
the box for "Add to template" or the radio button to save the style
in the template (can't remember the exact wording) in Word 2007.


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Open the document and use the Organiser (Alt+F8 Organizer) to copy
style(s) from document to template.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



veronius wrote:
I am sick to death of creating new styles that would save me tons of
effort reformatting all the time, only to have them NOWHERE TO BE
FOUND the next time I need them. What happens to a new style when I
create it??? What impossibly esoteric and arcane directory does it
get saved in???