Create new documents based on your new template. Paste text from the old
documents into the new documents as plain unformatted text. (Edit Paste
Special) Apply styles as appropriate.
Converted documents from Word Perfect contain extra baggage. You may want to
first save these as plain text files and then copy the text from those plain
text files.
Graphics will need to be inserted one at a time.
Sorry that I don't have a "push this button then use this menu choice"
solution for you. What you are attempting is labor intensive if you want to
end up with a good result.
Finally, save your new documents as templates. Use those templates for the
creation of new documents.
For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog,
and locations of templates folders see
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.
--
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word
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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"cayce" wrote in message
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I am going to be tasked with applying a new template to about 65 proposal
documents. Some of these documents had an earlier life in Word Perfect.
Some
are very graphic intensive and large in file size; others are mostly just
text intensive. Further, these current documents are inconsisently
formatted
(hence the need for a new template). By this I mean page setup,
headers/footers, logos and their size, styles names and their definitions,
and some have left/right pages while most are set up for single page. I
do
not think any single document exceeds 80 pages. All use outline numbering
for
heading levels and this much I know will be true in the new template.
I do not yet know what other changes there are to be in the new template,
but I would like to be looking ahead to what could become a massive amount
of
work.
I am operating in Word 97 SR2. Does anyone have a sound stategy they can
offer without knowing more of what the nuts and bolts changes are in the
new
template. Or, is it best to wait and see what the new template contains
before forming a strategy.
Any guidance or suggestions would be most appreciated.