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Use Templates or Macros? Margins and Full Just. varies in each doc
We receive a lot of documents from other people both in the firm and from
email that we have to use in a final version. We want to make sure the final documents we do have margins of 1" all around and are justified. We have templates that we attach that give us our styles, and override whatever we have been sent. Even the Normal style is justified and the template itself is 1" all around. However justification does not change when we attach the template nor do margins. Is there a way to override these things? Clicking automatically override document styles in Templates and add-ins doesn't change this. Alternately, is it better to try and write a macro that would ensure all documents from near and far start out the same way? With a macro, there would be so many variables, and since this is a law firm, the beginning and end of the doucment cannot be justified. Thank you for any ideas and help. |
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Hi Liz,
I would suggest that when you need to create a document with the correct format/margins using text from outside, first create a new blank document from your own template, then use the Insert File feature in Word to insert the file you have recived. -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup "LizW" wrote in message ... We receive a lot of documents from other people both in the firm and from email that we have to use in a final version. We want to make sure the final documents we do have margins of 1" all around and are justified. We have templates that we attach that give us our styles, and override whatever we have been sent. Even the Normal style is justified and the template itself is 1" all around. However justification does not change when we attach the template nor do margins. Is there a way to override these things? Clicking automatically override document styles in Templates and add-ins doesn't change this. Alternately, is it better to try and write a macro that would ensure all documents from near and far start out the same way? With a macro, there would be so many variables, and since this is a law firm, the beginning and end of the doucment cannot be justified. Thank you for any ideas and help. |
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That works great with keeping the margins but left justified docs come in and
keep their justification even though the document I am bringing them in is full justified. Any ideas? Thanks! "Jonathan West" wrote: Hi Liz, I would suggest that when you need to create a document with the correct format/margins using text from outside, first create a new blank document from your own template, then use the Insert File feature in Word to insert the file you have recived. -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup "LizW" wrote in message ... We receive a lot of documents from other people both in the firm and from email that we have to use in a final version. We want to make sure the final documents we do have margins of 1" all around and are justified. We have templates that we attach that give us our styles, and override whatever we have been sent. Even the Normal style is justified and the template itself is 1" all around. However justification does not change when we attach the template nor do margins. Is there a way to override these things? Clicking automatically override document styles in Templates and add-ins doesn't change this. Alternately, is it better to try and write a macro that would ensure all documents from near and far start out the same way? With a macro, there would be so many variables, and since this is a law firm, the beginning and end of the doucment cannot be justified. Thank you for any ideas and help. |
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Perhaps they are using styles that are not justified?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LizW" wrote in message ... That works great with keeping the margins but left justified docs come in and keep their justification even though the document I am bringing them in is full justified. Any ideas? Thanks! "Jonathan West" wrote: Hi Liz, I would suggest that when you need to create a document with the correct format/margins using text from outside, first create a new blank document from your own template, then use the Insert File feature in Word to insert the file you have recived. -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup "LizW" wrote in message ... We receive a lot of documents from other people both in the firm and from email that we have to use in a final version. We want to make sure the final documents we do have margins of 1" all around and are justified. We have templates that we attach that give us our styles, and override whatever we have been sent. Even the Normal style is justified and the template itself is 1" all around. However justification does not change when we attach the template nor do margins. Is there a way to override these things? Clicking automatically override document styles in Templates and add-ins doesn't change this. Alternately, is it better to try and write a macro that would ensure all documents from near and far start out the same way? With a macro, there would be so many variables, and since this is a law firm, the beginning and end of the doucment cannot be justified. Thank you for any ideas and help. |
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Justification is a paragraph attribute - best applied through a style.
-- 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. "LizW" wrote in message ... That works great with keeping the margins but left justified docs come in and keep their justification even though the document I am bringing them in is full justified. Any ideas? Thanks! "Jonathan West" wrote: Hi Liz, I would suggest that when you need to create a document with the correct format/margins using text from outside, first create a new blank document from your own template, then use the Insert File feature in Word to insert the file you have recived. -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup "LizW" wrote in message ... We receive a lot of documents from other people both in the firm and from email that we have to use in a final version. We want to make sure the final documents we do have margins of 1" all around and are justified. We have templates that we attach that give us our styles, and override whatever we have been sent. Even the Normal style is justified and the template itself is 1" all around. However justification does not change when we attach the template nor do margins. Is there a way to override these things? Clicking automatically override document styles in Templates and add-ins doesn't change this. Alternately, is it better to try and write a macro that would ensure all documents from near and far start out the same way? With a macro, there would be so many variables, and since this is a law firm, the beginning and end of the doucment cannot be justified. Thank you for any ideas and help. |
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"LizW" wrote in message ... That works great with keeping the margins but left justified docs come in and keep their justification even though the document I am bringing them in is full justified. Any ideas? Thanks! Select the offending paragraphs, press Ctrl-Q. This strips off all manual paragraph formatting and leaves the format as defined in the style. Similarly, Ctrl-Space strips out manual font formatting -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup |