Use Word's built-in Organizer, a very handy utility that is very hard to
find in Word. Go to Tools-Customize, and click the Keyboard button. In the
left menu select Format, in the right FormatStyle (the first of several
Style choices). Assign a keyboard command to it.

Close Customize and press the keyboard command you created. This will bring
up a menu titled just plain "Style." In the lower left corner, click
Organizer. You can open your xyzco document in one of the windows, and the
active document, or any other, in the other window. You can then select
individual styles, or all of the styles, and move them into any document(s)
you want. You can even pick and choose styles to move over by using the Ctrl
key to select non-contiguous styles.

"AnnieB" wrote in message
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Word 2003
I need a way to make sure a set of custom styles is easily brought into
the
active document. I have created a template (xyzco-styles.dot) that
contains
the xyzco styles. Which would be the best approach - to use a macro that
copies all styles from xyzco-styles.dot into the active document OR to use
a
macro that attaches the xyzco-styles.dot to the active document?

My tests have shown me that when I attach the template, the styles do not
show up in the active doc unless Automatically update document styles was
checked. Are there any other implications to this choice?

I am tending towards the attach template idea because we may add or remove
styles occasionally and updating a macro that specifically copies styles
would be overhead we don't want to add.

I plan on creating a custom toolbar in an xyzco.dot and that is where the
above mentioned macro would reside. This template would live in the MS
Office Startup folder so the toolbar is available when Word starts.

Am I on track? Thanks!