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We have dozens of source docs with coordinated style names matching several templates that have the same names but modified formatting. The idea is to create a new doc from the right template & paste in the source doc to assume the new template styles. Good idea but cannot make it work. The styles are carrying the list type as a prefix e.g.; 5.0 Pro_Header & 1) Pro_Header and my guess is that keeps them from matching up. In the style definitions they both are Pro_Header without mention of number style. I really, really must make this work and soon and will appreciate any help or point to a direction, etc. |
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The only way I know of to make it work is to use "Edit - Paste Special -
Unformatted Text." That brings the text of your source document in as unformatted text, with no styles or formatting. You'll need to reformat the plain text to the new styles in your template. Reformatting the text is a pain, but any other method of pasting text will carry the styles from the original document, and you'll end up with two sets of styles -- one from the new and one from the old. Fred "OldLincoln" wrote: Word 2003 - SP3 XP Home - SP2 We have dozens of source docs with coordinated style names matching several templates that have the same names but modified formatting. The idea is to create a new doc from the right template & paste in the source doc to assume the new template styles. Good idea but cannot make it work. The styles are carrying the list type as a prefix e.g.; 5.0 Pro_Header & 1) Pro_Header and my guess is that keeps them from matching up. In the style definitions they both are Pro_Header without mention of number style. I really, really must make this work and soon and will appreciate any help or point to a direction, etc. |
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That makes the process dependent on me doing it. I may be better off just
maintaining 12 sets of originals each formatted for a client. Being stubborn, I started looking into code to replace one style with another in a way that refreshes the active document. If you know that will not work please let me know, or hopefully, that it will work, please toss me a bone. Thanks Earle "Idaho Word Man" wrote: The only way I know of to make it work is to use "Edit - Paste Special - Unformatted Text." That brings the text of your source document in as unformatted text, with no styles or formatting. You'll need to reformat the plain text to the new styles in your template. Reformatting the text is a pain, but any other method of pasting text will carry the styles from the original document, and you'll end up with two sets of styles -- one from the new and one from the old. Fred "OldLincoln" wrote: Word 2003 - SP3 XP Home - SP2 We have dozens of source docs with coordinated style names matching several templates that have the same names but modified formatting. The idea is to create a new doc from the right template & paste in the source doc to assume the new template styles. Good idea but cannot make it work. The styles are carrying the list type as a prefix e.g.; 5.0 Pro_Header & 1) Pro_Header and my guess is that keeps them from matching up. In the style definitions they both are Pro_Header without mention of number style. I really, really must make this work and soon and will appreciate any help or point to a direction, etc. |
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What if I stuck a leading tag in front of each (unformatted) paragraph
indicating the style I want then walked the doc with code to apply it? Earle "OldLincoln" wrote: That makes the process dependent on me doing it. I may be better off just maintaining 12 sets of originals each formatted for a client. Being stubborn, I started looking into code to replace one style with another in a way that refreshes the active document. If you know that will not work please let me know, or hopefully, that it will work, please toss me a bone. Thanks Earle "Idaho Word Man" wrote: The only way I know of to make it work is to use "Edit - Paste Special - Unformatted Text." That brings the text of your source document in as unformatted text, with no styles or formatting. You'll need to reformat the plain text to the new styles in your template. Reformatting the text is a pain, but any other method of pasting text will carry the styles from the original document, and you'll end up with two sets of styles -- one from the new and one from the old. Fred "OldLincoln" wrote: Word 2003 - SP3 XP Home - SP2 We have dozens of source docs with coordinated style names matching several templates that have the same names but modified formatting. The idea is to create a new doc from the right template & paste in the source doc to assume the new template styles. Good idea but cannot make it work. The styles are carrying the list type as a prefix e.g.; 5.0 Pro_Header & 1) Pro_Header and my guess is that keeps them from matching up. In the style definitions they both are Pro_Header without mention of number style. I really, really must make this work and soon and will appreciate any help or point to a direction, etc. |
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You can certainly use the Find and Replace dialog box (Ctrl+H) to replace
styles (assuming that the replacement style exists in the document of course). In the dialog box, be sure to click the More button so that you can see all options. Then place the insertion point in the "Find what" box, click the Format button, click Style, and choose the desired style. Repeat for the "Replace with" box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "OldLincoln" wrote in message ... That makes the process dependent on me doing it. I may be better off just maintaining 12 sets of originals each formatted for a client. Being stubborn, I started looking into code to replace one style with another in a way that refreshes the active document. If you know that will not work please let me know, or hopefully, that it will work, please toss me a bone. Thanks Earle "Idaho Word Man" wrote: The only way I know of to make it work is to use "Edit - Paste Special - Unformatted Text." That brings the text of your source document in as unformatted text, with no styles or formatting. You'll need to reformat the plain text to the new styles in your template. Reformatting the text is a pain, but any other method of pasting text will carry the styles from the original document, and you'll end up with two sets of styles -- one from the new and one from the old. Fred "OldLincoln" wrote: Word 2003 - SP3 XP Home - SP2 We have dozens of source docs with coordinated style names matching several templates that have the same names but modified formatting. The idea is to create a new doc from the right template & paste in the source doc to assume the new template styles. Good idea but cannot make it work. The styles are carrying the list type as a prefix e.g.; 5.0 Pro_Header & 1) Pro_Header and my guess is that keeps them from matching up. In the style definitions they both are Pro_Header without mention of number style. I really, really must make this work and soon and will appreciate any help or point to a direction, etc. |
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Thanks, I got everything working by prepending a tag to each paragraph and
making the entire doc Normal. Then via code it walks the doc applying the correct format. Works great, I just make a new doc via a macro I put in a new "Templates" menu item, copy/paste the doc to format, then run the code. It applies the format from the template and it's done. Earle "Stefan Blom" wrote: You can certainly use the Find and Replace dialog box (Ctrl+H) to replace styles (assuming that the replacement style exists in the document of course). In the dialog box, be sure to click the More button so that you can see all options. Then place the insertion point in the "Find what" box, click the Format button, click Style, and choose the desired style. Repeat for the "Replace with" box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "OldLincoln" wrote in message ... That makes the process dependent on me doing it. I may be better off just maintaining 12 sets of originals each formatted for a client. Being stubborn, I started looking into code to replace one style with another in a way that refreshes the active document. If you know that will not work please let me know, or hopefully, that it will work, please toss me a bone. Thanks Earle "Idaho Word Man" wrote: The only way I know of to make it work is to use "Edit - Paste Special - Unformatted Text." That brings the text of your source document in as unformatted text, with no styles or formatting. You'll need to reformat the plain text to the new styles in your template. Reformatting the text is a pain, but any other method of pasting text will carry the styles from the original document, and you'll end up with two sets of styles -- one from the new and one from the old. Fred "OldLincoln" wrote: Word 2003 - SP3 XP Home - SP2 We have dozens of source docs with coordinated style names matching several templates that have the same names but modified formatting. The idea is to create a new doc from the right template & paste in the source doc to assume the new template styles. Good idea but cannot make it work. The styles are carrying the list type as a prefix e.g.; 5.0 Pro_Header & 1) Pro_Header and my guess is that keeps them from matching up. In the style definitions they both are Pro_Header without mention of number style. I really, really must make this work and soon and will appreciate any help or point to a direction, etc. |
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I'm glad you got it sorted, and thank you for the follow-up.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "OldLincoln" wrote in message ... Thanks, I got everything working by prepending a tag to each paragraph and making the entire doc Normal. Then via code it walks the doc applying the correct format. Works great, I just make a new doc via a macro I put in a new "Templates" menu item, copy/paste the doc to format, then run the code. It applies the format from the template and it's done. Earle "Stefan Blom" wrote: You can certainly use the Find and Replace dialog box (Ctrl+H) to replace styles (assuming that the replacement style exists in the document of course). In the dialog box, be sure to click the More button so that you can see all options. Then place the insertion point in the "Find what" box, click the Format button, click Style, and choose the desired style. Repeat for the "Replace with" box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "OldLincoln" wrote in message ... That makes the process dependent on me doing it. I may be better off just maintaining 12 sets of originals each formatted for a client. Being stubborn, I started looking into code to replace one style with another in a way that refreshes the active document. If you know that will not work please let me know, or hopefully, that it will work, please toss me a bone. Thanks Earle "Idaho Word Man" wrote: The only way I know of to make it work is to use "Edit - Paste Special - Unformatted Text." That brings the text of your source document in as unformatted text, with no styles or formatting. You'll need to reformat the plain text to the new styles in your template. Reformatting the text is a pain, but any other method of pasting text will carry the styles from the original document, and you'll end up with two sets of styles -- one from the new and one from the old. Fred "OldLincoln" wrote: Word 2003 - SP3 XP Home - SP2 We have dozens of source docs with coordinated style names matching several templates that have the same names but modified formatting. The idea is to create a new doc from the right template & paste in the source doc to assume the new template styles. Good idea but cannot make it work. The styles are carrying the list type as a prefix e.g.; 5.0 Pro_Header & 1) Pro_Header and my guess is that keeps them from matching up. In the style definitions they both are Pro_Header without mention of number style. I really, really must make this work and soon and will appreciate any help or point to a direction, etc. |
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