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How do I duplicate a Word Style?
I haven't been able to figure this out.
How do I duplicate a Word style? I was asked this recently by a co-worker and I haven't been able to figure it out but it seems like it should be possible. I'm familiar with creating, applying and modifying styles. I also use the Organizer. 1) My co-worker wants to create a style and copy the style so they can modify a second style slightly. They do not want to have to go through all the steps to create the second style and make the one, small change when the orginal style has all of the starting formatting. 2) Also, I do NOT want the second style based on the first style as I do not want the second style modified when I make changes to the first style. Hope this isn't overly confusing. Thanks for any assistance in advance! Jugglertwo |
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Answer: How do I duplicate a Word Style?
Hi Jugglertwo,
Duplicating a Word style is actually quite easy! Here are the steps:
That's it! You now have a duplicate of your original style that you can modify without affecting the original.
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How do I duplicate a Word Style?
If its not a built in style you can do as follow
Tools | Templates and Add-ins | Organizer Copy the style you want to duplicate to normal.dot (or preferably some dummy document) rename it, and copy it back. If you used normal.dot as you temporary storage. Delete the style from normal.dot. If its a built in style the same method wont work since you will not really change its name, just give it a new alias. I do not really know how to do this with a built-in style other than using some VBA "Jugglertwo" wrote: I haven't been able to figure this out. How do I duplicate a Word style? I was asked this recently by a co-worker and I haven't been able to figure it out but it seems like it should be possible. I'm familiar with creating, applying and modifying styles. I also use the Organizer. 1) My co-worker wants to create a style and copy the style so they can modify a second style slightly. They do not want to have to go through all the steps to create the second style and make the one, small change when the orginal style has all of the starting formatting. 2) Also, I do NOT want the second style based on the first style as I do not want the second style modified when I make changes to the first style. Hope this isn't overly confusing. Thanks for any assistance in advance! Jugglertwo |
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How do I duplicate a Word Style?
Your suggestion worked great. I wanted to use it for a user defined style so
your directions were just right. I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have been able to figure this one out anytime in the near future by myself. Thanks again and I owe you one! You are the BESTEST Jugglertwo "periodic" wrote: If its not a built in style you can do as follow Tools | Templates and Add-ins | Organizer Copy the style you want to duplicate to normal.dot (or preferably some dummy document) rename it, and copy it back. If you used normal.dot as you temporary storage. Delete the style from normal.dot. If its a built in style the same method wont work since you will not really change its name, just give it a new alias. I do not really know how to do this with a built-in style other than using some VBA "Jugglertwo" wrote: I haven't been able to figure this out. How do I duplicate a Word style? I was asked this recently by a co-worker and I haven't been able to figure it out but it seems like it should be possible. I'm familiar with creating, applying and modifying styles. I also use the Organizer. 1) My co-worker wants to create a style and copy the style so they can modify a second style slightly. They do not want to have to go through all the steps to create the second style and make the one, small change when the orginal style has all of the starting formatting. 2) Also, I do NOT want the second style based on the first style as I do not want the second style modified when I make changes to the first style. Hope this isn't overly confusing. Thanks for any assistance in advance! Jugglertwo |
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How do I duplicate a Word Style?
This sounds like an unnecessary rigmarole for a basic style editing
function. If you create a new style based on another style, then unlink the 'based on' style by changing it to based on 'no style', the original style parameters are retained along with with your edits, but not linked to the original style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jugglertwo wrote: Your suggestion worked great. I wanted to use it for a user defined style so your directions were just right. I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have been able to figure this one out anytime in the near future by myself. Thanks again and I owe you one! You are the BESTEST Jugglertwo "periodic" wrote: If its not a built in style you can do as follow Tools | Templates and Add-ins | Organizer Copy the style you want to duplicate to normal.dot (or preferably some dummy document) rename it, and copy it back. If you used normal.dot as you temporary storage. Delete the style from normal.dot. If its a built in style the same method wont work since you will not really change its name, just give it a new alias. I do not really know how to do this with a built-in style other than using some VBA "Jugglertwo" wrote: I haven't been able to figure this out. How do I duplicate a Word style? I was asked this recently by a co-worker and I haven't been able to figure it out but it seems like it should be possible. I'm familiar with creating, applying and modifying styles. I also use the Organizer. 1) My co-worker wants to create a style and copy the style so they can modify a second style slightly. They do not want to have to go through all the steps to create the second style and make the one, small change when the orginal style has all of the starting formatting. 2) Also, I do NOT want the second style based on the first style as I do not want the second style modified when I make changes to the first style. Hope this isn't overly confusing. Thanks for any assistance in advance! Jugglertwo |
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How do I duplicate a Word Style?
Well I tried it. It worked kind of. It worked if you used no style as you
said. But if you wanted to base it on normal. Which might not be that unreasonable, I discovered you had to first base the new style on the old one. Then base it on no style and finally base it on normal to have it retain all formating. But that way sure seems easier anyway "Graham Mayor" wrote: This sounds like an unnecessary rigmarole for a basic style editing function. If you create a new style based on another style, then unlink the 'based on' style by changing it to based on 'no style', the original style parameters are retained along with with your edits, but not linked to the original style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jugglertwo wrote: Your suggestion worked great. I wanted to use it for a user defined style so your directions were just right. I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have been able to figure this one out anytime in the near future by myself. Thanks again and I owe you one! You are the BESTEST Jugglertwo "periodic" wrote: If its not a built in style you can do as follow Tools | Templates and Add-ins | Organizer Copy the style you want to duplicate to normal.dot (or preferably some dummy document) rename it, and copy it back. If you used normal.dot as you temporary storage. Delete the style from normal.dot. If its a built in style the same method wont work since you will not really change its name, just give it a new alias. I do not really know how to do this with a built-in style other than using some VBA "Jugglertwo" wrote: I haven't been able to figure this out. How do I duplicate a Word style? I was asked this recently by a co-worker and I haven't been able to figure it out but it seems like it should be possible. I'm familiar with creating, applying and modifying styles. I also use the Organizer. 1) My co-worker wants to create a style and copy the style so they can modify a second style slightly. They do not want to have to go through all the steps to create the second style and make the one, small change when the orginal style has all of the starting formatting. 2) Also, I do NOT want the second style based on the first style as I do not want the second style modified when I make changes to the first style. Hope this isn't overly confusing. Thanks for any assistance in advance! Jugglertwo |
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I have a problem with the unlink based on style. The style uses frames, and when unlinked from the base style, the frame disappears.
I am working on this in order to use the master/sub document functionality. I want to change the headings of the document to be in inserted so that the master template does not overwrite their heading styles, which are different than the document into which the subdocument is being inserted. Using some internet resources I have a macro to create a new style based on the heading and replaces it in the document prior to insertion. Unfortuneatley the headings use frames and when I set the base style property to none, the frame drops out. I need to set the base style to none, so that the destination heading doesn't flow into the new style. code: Sub changeHeadingtoStyle() 'sParStyle = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(J).Style Chead = Selection.Paragraphs.Style.NameLocal NewName = "Merged2" & Chead ActiveDocument.Styles.Add Name:=NewName, Type:=wdStyleTypeParagraph Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles(Chead) Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles(NewName) With Selection.Find .Text = "" .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll 'ActiveDocument.Styles(NewName).BaseStyle = "" End Sub the only solution I see is to copy the newly created style to a macro generated document, change the base style property to none there, rename the style, bring it back to the original document and do a search and replace for the heading. Does anyone have a simpler suggestions. Again main point is to use master/subdocument functionality so that a document inserted doesn't have its built in headings assume the formatting of the master document. thanks Steve "Graham Mayor" wrote: This sounds like an unnecessary rigmarole for a basic style editing function. If you create a new style based on another style, then unlink the 'based on' style by changing it to based on 'no style', the original style parameters are retained along with with your edits, but not linked to the original style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jugglertwo wrote: Your suggestion worked great. I wanted to use it for a user defined style so your directions were just right. I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have been able to figure this one out anytime in the near future by myself. Thanks again and I owe you one! You are the BESTEST Jugglertwo "periodic" wrote: If its not a built in style you can do as follow Tools | Templates and Add-ins | Organizer Copy the style you want to duplicate to normal.dot (or preferably some dummy document) rename it, and copy it back. If you used normal.dot as you temporary storage. Delete the style from normal.dot. If its a built in style the same method wont work since you will not really change its name, just give it a new alias. I do not really know how to do this with a built-in style other than using some VBA "Jugglertwo" wrote: I haven't been able to figure this out. How do I duplicate a Word style? I was asked this recently by a co-worker and I haven't been able to figure it out but it seems like it should be possible. I'm familiar with creating, applying and modifying styles. I also use the Organizer. 1) My co-worker wants to create a style and copy the style so they can modify a second style slightly. They do not want to have to go through all the steps to create the second style and make the one, small change when the orginal style has all of the starting formatting. 2) Also, I do NOT want the second style based on the first style as I do not want the second style modified when I make changes to the first style. Hope this isn't overly confusing. Thanks for any assistance in advance! Jugglertwo [/quote] |
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