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Matching Multiple Document Formatting
I have a standard format (including page numbering, margins, tabs, font size,
etc.) that I want to be able to quickly apply to a document or series of documents. I work on projects that have many different people working on different systems creating files for me. They have templates, but often do not use them or use out-dated templates. I need some way to fix the formatting after-the-fact so that it is uniform across a number of files. Is this possible with a template? Can I apply a template's formatting to a preexisting document? If not, what else can I try? |
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NichKramer wrote:
I have a standard format (including page numbering, margins, tabs, font size, etc.) that I want to be able to quickly apply to a document or series of documents. I work on projects that have many different people working on different systems creating files for me. They have templates, but often do not use them or use out-dated templates. I need some way to fix the formatting after-the-fact so that it is uniform across a number of files. Is this possible with a template? Can I apply a template's formatting to a preexisting document? If not, what else can I try? It isn't going to be easy. The article at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html summarizes it. Essentially, a document gets its formatting from a template at the time of the document's creation; there are very few facilities for forcing an existing document to conform to a different template. If this is something you need to do often, it's worth spending the time to write and debug a macro that will enforce all of the styles, section-level properties, options, and compatibility settings needed to make any arbitrary document conform to your requirements. If you record such a macro, you'll need to see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ordedMacro.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Thanks for the help. That's basically what I expected. I've never created a
macro before, so I thought there might be a simpler way around it, but I guess I'm going to have the throw on the ole programming cap and see what I can come up with. regards, -nich- "Jay Freedman" wrote: NichKramer wrote: I have a standard format (including page numbering, margins, tabs, font size, etc.) that I want to be able to quickly apply to a document or series of documents. I work on projects that have many different people working on different systems creating files for me. They have templates, but often do not use them or use out-dated templates. I need some way to fix the formatting after-the-fact so that it is uniform across a number of files. Is this possible with a template? Can I apply a template's formatting to a preexisting document? If not, what else can I try? It isn't going to be easy. The article at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html summarizes it. Essentially, a document gets its formatting from a template at the time of the document's creation; there are very few facilities for forcing an existing document to conform to a different template. If this is something you need to do often, it's worth spending the time to write and debug a macro that will enforce all of the styles, section-level properties, options, and compatibility settings needed to make any arbitrary document conform to your requirements. If you record such a macro, you'll need to see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ordedMacro.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Jay Freedman wrote:
It isn't going to be easy. The article at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html summarizes it. Essentially, a document gets its formatting from a template at the time of the document's creation; there are very few facilities for forcing an existing document to conform to a different template. I generally prefer the results if I open a blank doc based on my template, and then use Insert | File to get the existing file into the template. It does more than just attaching, anyhow. |
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