[Kenny Bones[_2_]]

Hi, I've run into a huge problem here.
I've spent hours and hours developing Word templates for a company and
thought of a framework structure like this:

LetterStyles.dot ReportStyles.dot
|
|
LetterTemplate.dot ReportTemplate.dot


While developing, the LetterTemplate and ReportTemplate have both been in
..doc format since I didn't want to save them as .dot until I was finished.
Now, saving these to .dot gives me a huge problem. I can't attach a .dot
file to another .dot file! Meaning that the whole dynamic stylesheets are for
nothing!

How can I fix this? I really need to have a stylesheet system for the
templates because there are so many sub-templates in the works who all should
share the same styles.

I've noticed that there's a tab called "Linked CSS"
How does css files work with Microsoft Word? Can I export my existing .dot
styles to a css-fil? What about specific stuff like paragraph styles etc?

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Kenny

Kenny Bones wrote:
Hi, I've run into a huge problem here.
I've spent hours and hours developing Word templates for a company and
thought of a framework structure like this:

LetterStyles.dot ReportStyles.dot
|
|
LetterTemplate.dot ReportTemplate.dot


While developing, the LetterTemplate and ReportTemplate have both been in
.doc format since I didn't want to save them as .dot until I was finished.
Now, saving these to .dot gives me a huge problem. I can't attach a .dot
file to another .dot file! Meaning that the whole dynamic stylesheets are for
nothing!

you can use the Organizer to copy styles from one template/document to
the other. And you can also automate this approach (by, say, creating an
AutoNew macro in the LetterTemplate.dot that fires whenever a new
document based on this template is created).

HTH
Robert
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