On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:25:03 -0800, "c_angler"
wrote:

My ultimate goal is to create a template so that all training manuals created
by my company will have the same look.
So, I typed and saved what I thought was a template, then I inserted an
already written training manual into it, nothing happened. But, I did see
that all the styles that I had applied in my template could be seen and
accessed from the styles/formatting window. So as people type the manual,
they can apply those few styles to their text, titles, etc.
The problem is this: If they cut and paste anything into the document, it
sometimes changes the font of everything around it. I want to limit all text
within the document to the few styles that I saved in the template. Is this
possible? And again, what is the point of having a template? I have read so
much about the relationship between template and document, but still don't
get it.
Thanks

The main point of a template is to supply styles *at the time you
create a new document based on that template*. As soon as that step is
complete, for most purposed the link between the document and the
template is severed (the exceptions being macros and AutoText that the
document can call from their storage in the template). The styles in
the document are independent clones of the ones in the template, and
then can be modified/applied/deleted without reference to the
template.

When a document is created from one template, and then a different
template is attached to it, you need to take extra action to update
the corresponding styles in the document. See this article for a
discussion:
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html

The issue of copy/paste changing formatting is discussed he
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...xtChanges.html

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org