[Double R]

I have templates created in word 2003 but when loaded into word 2007 my
styles do not seem to be there. Do I have to create new styles and if so how
is this done in word 2007, or is there a way to copy the styles from my 2003
documents?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Double R

[Terry Farrell]

Unless you specifically saved your styles with the templates, they are saved
to normal.dot by default. Do you still have access to your old PC? If so,
you can use Organizer to copy the styles from normal.dot to a template. Then
being the template to your new computer and again use Organizer to copy them
to your templates. Don't be tempted to bring across your old normal,dot to
use in Word2007 because it won't work very well.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Double R" wrote in message
...
I have templates created in word 2003 but when loaded into word 2007 my
styles do not seem to be there. Do I have to create new styles and if so
how is this done in word 2007, or is there a way to copy the styles from my
2003 documents?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Double R

[Double R]

Thanks Terry I have done as you suggested but the problem now is that
although I have managed to copy the styles across the associated autotext
entries for each style is missing e.g. on a regular template I use there is
a heading for "Companies" in word 2003 I had a style called "companies" and
a list of company names as autotext entries, and if there was a new Company
then I just highlighted the name and clicked "New" then that company name
was in the list. I hope I am explaining this ok!

Cheers

Double R
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Unless you specifically saved your styles with the templates, they are
saved to normal.dot by default. Do you still have access to your old PC?
If so, you can use Organizer to copy the styles from normal.dot to a
template. Then being the template to your new computer and again use
Organizer to copy them to your templates. Don't be tempted to bring across
your old normal,dot to use in Word2007 because it won't work very well.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Double R" wrote in message
...
I have templates created in word 2003 but when loaded into word 2007 my
styles do not seem to be there. Do I have to create new styles and if so
how is this done in word 2007, or is there a way to copy the styles from
my 2003 documents?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Double R

[Terry Farrell]

AutoText is basically the same: by default they are saved in the normal
template unless otherwise changed. You can also copy these to a template
using the Organizer (and custom toolbars too).

Terry

"Double R" wrote in message
...
Thanks Terry I have done as you suggested but the problem now is that
although I have managed to copy the styles across the associated autotext
entries for each style is missing e.g. on a regular template I use there
is a heading for "Companies" in word 2003 I had a style called "companies"
and a list of company names as autotext entries, and if there was a new
Company then I just highlighted the name and clicked "New" then that
company name was in the list. I hope I am explaining this ok!

Cheers

Double R
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Unless you specifically saved your styles with the templates, they are
saved to normal.dot by default. Do you still have access to your old PC?
If so, you can use Organizer to copy the styles from normal.dot to a
template. Then being the template to your new computer and again use
Organizer to copy them to your templates. Don't be tempted to bring
across your old normal,dot to use in Word2007 because it won't work very
well.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Double R" wrote in message
...
I have templates created in word 2003 but when loaded into word 2007 my
styles do not seem to be there. Do I have to create new styles and if so
how is this done in word 2007, or is there a way to copy the styles from
my 2003 documents?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Double R

[Double R]

Thanks again Terry but excuse me for being thick but in Organiser I can only
see two options "Styles" and "Macro Project Items" nothing about Autotext
entries!

Thanks again

Roy
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
AutoText is basically the same: by default they are saved in the normal
template unless otherwise changed. You can also copy these to a template
using the Organizer (and custom toolbars too).

Terry

"Double R" wrote in message
...
Thanks Terry I have done as you suggested but the problem now is that
although I have managed to copy the styles across the associated autotext
entries for each style is missing e.g. on a regular template I use there
is a heading for "Companies" in word 2003 I had a style called
"companies" and a list of company names as autotext entries, and if there
was a new Company then I just highlighted the name and clicked "New" then
that company name was in the list. I hope I am explaining this ok!

Cheers

Double R
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Unless you specifically saved your styles with the templates, they are
saved to normal.dot by default. Do you still have access to your old PC?
If so, you can use Organizer to copy the styles from normal.dot to a
template. Then being the template to your new computer and again use
Organizer to copy them to your templates. Don't be tempted to bring
across your old normal,dot to use in Word2007 because it won't work very
well.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Double R" wrote in message
...
I have templates created in word 2003 but when loaded into word 2007 my
styles do not seem to be there. Do I have to create new styles and if so
how is this done in word 2007, or is there a way to copy the styles from
my 2003 documents?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Double R

[Terry Farrell]

Tools, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer should have 4 tabs for Styles,
AutoText, Toolbars and Macro Projects. Do you not have the 4 tabs?

Terry

"Double R" wrote in message
...
Thanks again Terry but excuse me for being thick but in Organiser I can
only see two options "Styles" and "Macro Project Items" nothing about
Autotext entries!

Thanks again

Roy
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
AutoText is basically the same: by default they are saved in the normal
template unless otherwise changed. You can also copy these to a template
using the Organizer (and custom toolbars too).

Terry

"Double R" wrote in message
...
Thanks Terry I have done as you suggested but the problem now is that
although I have managed to copy the styles across the associated
autotext entries for each style is missing e.g. on a regular template I
use there is a heading for "Companies" in word 2003 I had a style called
"companies" and a list of company names as autotext entries, and if
there was a new Company then I just highlighted the name and clicked
"New" then that company name was in the list. I hope I am explaining
this ok!

Cheers

Double R
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Unless you specifically saved your styles with the templates, they are
saved to normal.dot by default. Do you still have access to your old
PC? If so, you can use Organizer to copy the styles from normal.dot to
a template. Then being the template to your new computer and again use
Organizer to copy them to your templates. Don't be tempted to bring
across your old normal,dot to use in Word2007 because it won't work
very well.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Double R" wrote in message
...
I have templates created in word 2003 but when loaded into word 2007 my
styles do not seem to be there. Do I have to create new styles and if
so how is this done in word 2007, or is there a way to copy the styles
from my 2003 documents?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Double R

[Larry]

Terry says:

Don't be tempted to bring across your old normal,dot to
use in Word2007 because it won't work very well.

If this is the case, how do we transfer our customized key assignments in
Normal.dot to Word 2007?

Yes, using Organizer we can transfer the macros from the old Word version's
Normal to 2007's Normal, but not key assignments. There's the Shortcut
Organizer, but that works one key combo at a time, not good if you have
hundreds of key assignments.

Larry

[Terry Farrell]

Basically you can't transfer key assignments. This has been a bugbear in all
versions of Word.

Terry

"Larry" wrote in message
...
Terry says:

Don't be tempted to bring across your old normal,dot to
use in Word2007 because it won't work very well.

If this is the case, how do we transfer our customized key assignments in
Normal.dot to Word 2007?

Yes, using Organizer we can transfer the macros from the old Word
version's
Normal to 2007's Normal, but not key assignments. There's the Shortcut
Organizer, but that works one key combo at a time, not good if you have
hundreds of key assignments.

Larry

[Daiya Mitchell]

What happens if you take your old Normal.dot, rename it, and install it
as a global template? Does that work in Word 2007? I believe it has
worked for earlier versions on the Mac.

Terry Farrell wrote:
Basically you can't transfer key assignments. This has been a bugbear
in all versions of Word.

Terry

"Larry" wrote in message
...
Terry says:

Don't be tempted to bring across your old normal,dot to
use in Word2007 because it won't work very well.

If this is the case, how do we transfer our customized key
assignments in
Normal.dot to Word 2007?

Yes, using Organizer we can transfer the macros from the old Word
version's
Normal to 2007's Normal, but not key assignments. There's the Shortcut
Organizer, but that works one key combo at a time, not good if you have
hundreds of key assignments.

Larry

[Terry Farrell]

Daiya

That's an interesting idea that I've not tried. Unfortunately, I've gone
totally Word 2007 now and don't have a legacy normal.dot to test on. To
think that I have always recreated my custom keystrokes for each upgrade...

terry

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
...
What happens if you take your old Normal.dot, rename it, and install it as
a global template? Does that work in Word 2007? I believe it has worked
for earlier versions on the Mac.

Terry Farrell wrote:
Basically you can't transfer key assignments. This has been a bugbear in
all versions of Word.

Terry

"Larry" wrote in message
...
Terry says:

Don't be tempted to bring across your old normal,dot to
use in Word2007 because it won't work very well.

If this is the case, how do we transfer our customized key assignments
in
Normal.dot to Word 2007?

Yes, using Organizer we can transfer the macros from the old Word
version's
Normal to 2007's Normal, but not key assignments. There's the Shortcut
Organizer, but that works one key combo at a time, not good if you have
hundreds of key assignments.

Larry

[Larry]

So I would have to re-assign my hundreds of key assignments to their
respective macros and commands one at a time?

Larry


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Basically you can't transfer key assignments. This has been a bugbear in
all
versions of Word.

Terry

"Larry" wrote in message
...
Terry says:

Don't be tempted to bring across your old normal,dot to
use in Word2007 because it won't work very well.

If this is the case, how do we transfer our customized key assignments
in
Normal.dot to Word 2007?

Yes, using Organizer we can transfer the macros from the old Word
version's
Normal to 2007's Normal, but not key assignments. There's the Shortcut
Organizer, but that works one key combo at a time, not good if you have
hundreds of key assignments.

Larry