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Can I update a word-document based on an external template?
Hi everyone,
I'm creating a quite a few documents - all based on a template that I have created and saved on my computer. Now, I'm quite sure that I'll sometime need to update the template (header, footer and changing the formats). My question: Is it possible to quickly update ALL of the documents that I have created based on a chosen template? That is, if I change header, footer or format on my template I want to have this changes updated where applicable (just like "web css-templating"). Kindly, Mikael Lindqvist Sweden |
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Can I update a word-document based on an external template?
Mikael Lindqvist wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm creating a quite a few documents - all based on a template that I have created and saved on my computer. Now, I'm quite sure that I'll sometime need to update the template (header, footer and changing the formats). My question: Is it possible to quickly update ALL of the documents that I have created based on a chosen template? That is, if I change header, footer or format on my template I want to have this changes updated where applicable (just like "web css-templating"). Kindly, Mikael Lindqvist Sweden If you change the styles in the template, you can force the documents to update to use the new style definitions. It won't have any effect, though, on the headers and footers. Read http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html and http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html for explanations. If you know you're going to change the content of the headers and footers, and not just the formatting, then you may be able to set up the template with IncludeText and IncludePicture fields instead of fixed text and graphics. These fields take their contents from bookmarked items in another document. When you update the source document, then you need to open the destination documents and update the fields. If you can't use the field scheme, you can change fixed-text headers and footers in a batch of existing documents with an adaptation of the macro in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm. When dealing with Word, forget anything you've learned about CSS. It's a different model. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Can I update a word-document based on an external template?
An alternative to IncludeText and IncludePicture fields is AutoText fields;
it's a bit harder to update AutoText entries than content in an external document, but insertion is easier (no problems with referencing a file or bookmark) and you don't have to keep track of external files. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Mikael Lindqvist wrote: Hi everyone, I'm creating a quite a few documents - all based on a template that I have created and saved on my computer. Now, I'm quite sure that I'll sometime need to update the template (header, footer and changing the formats). My question: Is it possible to quickly update ALL of the documents that I have created based on a chosen template? That is, if I change header, footer or format on my template I want to have this changes updated where applicable (just like "web css-templating"). Kindly, Mikael Lindqvist Sweden If you change the styles in the template, you can force the documents to update to use the new style definitions. It won't have any effect, though, on the headers and footers. Read http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html and http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html for explanations. If you know you're going to change the content of the headers and footers, and not just the formatting, then you may be able to set up the template with IncludeText and IncludePicture fields instead of fixed text and graphics. These fields take their contents from bookmarked items in another document. When you update the source document, then you need to open the destination documents and update the fields. If you can't use the field scheme, you can change fixed-text headers and footers in a batch of existing documents with an adaptation of the macro in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm. When dealing with Word, forget anything you've learned about CSS. It's a different model. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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