If you save your content as AutoText entries in your template and display
that content in your template (and resulting documents) as AutoText fields
and update the fields, you can get the update content in old documents.

I create new templates for each form letter, I never create a new document
from an old document (instead of a template) more than once. Because I want
my saved letters to be what I sent out, I do not have saved letters update
to new content. I do have the templates those letters are based upon grab
new content from a central location, though, when a new document is created
from them. This could be done with AutoText and macros, I use bookmarks in a
primary template combined with AutoNew macros.
--
Charles Kenyon

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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!
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"hawc2k2" wrote in message
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I must be missing something. I am trying to make a template that can be
used
for multiple documents. I want this template's layout, letterhead text,
graphics and any other formatting to be used for a letterhead. The only
graphic is the company logo.

When I create a new document from this template and then modify the
template, the layout changes are not reflected in the document I created
from
the template. I also have many other documents that I would like to apply
this template to. When I try applying the template to these other
documents,
the styles are copied but none of the layout, graphics or text are
applied.

Is there any way to create a master template that can be applied to new
and
old document that will insert a completely new page layout? I'm used to
using
HTML programs that let you modify a template which in turn modifies all
the
pages based on that template, including the graphics, tables, and all
other
templated layout features. I'm using Word 2002. Any help would be
appreciated.