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Modify Style Dialog in Word 2007
In Word 2007, on the Modify Style dialog, two new options appear: "Only in
this document" and "New documents based on this template". I've tried both settings but I can't seem to figure out their purpose. Even if I change the option to "New documents based on this template", when I access the Modify Style dialog again, the selection is changed back to the default ("Only in this document"). Does anyone know what these options do? |
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Modify Style Dialog in Word 2007
Amy G wrote:
In Word 2007, on the Modify Style dialog, two new options appear: "Only in this document" and "New documents based on this template". I've tried both settings but I can't seem to figure out their purpose. Even if I change the option to "New documents based on this template", when I access the Modify Style dialog again, the selection is changed back to the default ("Only in this document"). Does anyone know what these options do? When "Only in this document" is selected, the current batch of modifications is written only to the style definition in the current document. When "New documents based on this template" is selected, the modifications change the definition in the template. Each time you make a new modification, you get to choose again where you want it to be saved, and the default is always to the document only. -- 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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So when I'm creating a template, wouldn't I always want to have "New
documents based on this template" selected? I think some styles I created for my templates had "Only in this document" selected and they seemed to work fine. I guess that's why I'm curious to what they do, because I don't really see much difference in them. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Amy G wrote: In Word 2007, on the Modify Style dialog, two new options appear: "Only in this document" and "New documents based on this template". I've tried both settings but I can't seem to figure out their purpose. Even if I change the option to "New documents based on this template", when I access the Modify Style dialog again, the selection is changed back to the default ("Only in this document"). Does anyone know what these options do? When "Only in this document" is selected, the current batch of modifications is written only to the style definition in the current document. When "New documents based on this template" is selected, the modifications change the definition in the template. Each time you make a new modification, you get to choose again where you want it to be saved, and the default is always to the document only. -- 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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When you're creating a template, so it's open for editing, the two options
we're discussing both give the same result. That's because "this document" is the same thing as "the template attached to this document". However, that's a special case. For all documents that are not templates, the results are different. The styles in a document are separate and disconnected from the styles in the template used to base the document, as described in the "Part 1: What happens when a document is born?" section of http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html. Modifying a style in a document has no effect on the same-named style in the template unless you choose the "New documents based on this template" option. Amy G wrote: So when I'm creating a template, wouldn't I always want to have "New documents based on this template" selected? I think some styles I created for my templates had "Only in this document" selected and they seemed to work fine. I guess that's why I'm curious to what they do, because I don't really see much difference in them. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Amy G wrote: In Word 2007, on the Modify Style dialog, two new options appear: "Only in this document" and "New documents based on this template". I've tried both settings but I can't seem to figure out their purpose. Even if I change the option to "New documents based on this template", when I access the Modify Style dialog again, the selection is changed back to the default ("Only in this document"). Does anyone know what these options do? When "Only in this document" is selected, the current batch of modifications is written only to the style definition in the current document. When "New documents based on this template" is selected, the modifications change the definition in the template. Each time you make a new modification, you get to choose again where you want it to be saved, and the default is always to the document only. -- 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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Okay, thanks for your help.
"Jay Freedman" wrote: When you're creating a template, so it's open for editing, the two options we're discussing both give the same result. That's because "this document" is the same thing as "the template attached to this document". However, that's a special case. For all documents that are not templates, the results are different. The styles in a document are separate and disconnected from the styles in the template used to base the document, as described in the "Part 1: What happens when a document is born?" section of http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html. Modifying a style in a document has no effect on the same-named style in the template unless you choose the "New documents based on this template" option. Amy G wrote: So when I'm creating a template, wouldn't I always want to have "New documents based on this template" selected? I think some styles I created for my templates had "Only in this document" selected and they seemed to work fine. I guess that's why I'm curious to what they do, because I don't really see much difference in them. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Amy G wrote: In Word 2007, on the Modify Style dialog, two new options appear: "Only in this document" and "New documents based on this template". I've tried both settings but I can't seem to figure out their purpose. Even if I change the option to "New documents based on this template", when I access the Modify Style dialog again, the selection is changed back to the default ("Only in this document"). Does anyone know what these options do? When "Only in this document" is selected, the current batch of modifications is written only to the style definition in the current document. When "New documents based on this template" is selected, the modifications change the definition in the template. Each time you make a new modification, you get to choose again where you want it to be saved, and the default is always to the document only. -- 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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So it seems to me that, when editing a template, a) the two options should not be present, and b) when editing a document, "New documents based on this template" could perhaps more accurately be worded "New documents based on the attached template" (rather than "this", since it's not clear what "this" refers to). Yes?
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