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Style Organizer Frustration
I am struggling along trying to learn about and properly use styles, but
getting more frustrated by the minute. I have created a first template, FirstTemplate.dot, and I've "perfected" the styles in this template. Now I want to create a second template that's very similar to this one (these documents follow the same format but have different headings and content requirements). I figured I could use the Organizer to copy over all my lovely styles from FirstTemplate.dot into SecondTemplate.dot. For most of them, it worked OK, but I've found at least one glitch. I had set some styles for a hierarchical bulleted list (Bullet 1, Bullet 2, etc.). Although I keep copying the style from FirstTemplate.dot to SecondTemplate.dot in the organizer, and I confirm I want to overwrite, it still retains the normal bullet styles for SecondTemplate.dot (the main difference is in the paragraph indenting). I am getting so frustrated...although I am trying to use the proper styles and formats, I get foiled at every turn! Please tell me this does get easier eventually? TIA, Jen |
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Hi,
Bullet styles require special setup, as do numbered styles. See: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word document http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. (For bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html, the subject is related.) If you are setting up your styles properly, so that some are based on others, so that some have settings for the style for the following paragraph, the Organizer breaks these linkages, but can restore them. To copy styles that are interrelated, copy them three times. That is, select all styles being copied, copy them. Then click the Copy button two more times, OKing overwriting. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Jen" wrote in message ... I am struggling along trying to learn about and properly use styles, but getting more frustrated by the minute. I have created a first template, FirstTemplate.dot, and I've "perfected" the styles in this template. Now I want to create a second template that's very similar to this one (these documents follow the same format but have different headings and content requirements). I figured I could use the Organizer to copy over all my lovely styles from FirstTemplate.dot into SecondTemplate.dot. For most of them, it worked OK, but I've found at least one glitch. I had set some styles for a hierarchical bulleted list (Bullet 1, Bullet 2, etc.). Although I keep copying the style from FirstTemplate.dot to SecondTemplate.dot in the organizer, and I confirm I want to overwrite, it still retains the normal bullet styles for SecondTemplate.dot (the main difference is in the paragraph indenting). I am getting so frustrated...although I am trying to use the proper styles and formats, I get foiled at every turn! Please tell me this does get easier eventually? TIA, Jen |
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Thanks Charles, but that didn't seem to do it. I have FirstTemplate.dot in
the left side of the Organizer, and SecondTemplate.dot in the right side. I select all the List Bullets from the left and click Copy (Overwrite-Yes) three times - or even four!! But when I go back to SecondTemplate.dot the original styles are still there...they're not indented like I want. As far as I know they have been set up properly - based on proper List Bullet formats as per the articles you linked. I'm thinking the only thing I can do is to manually create the bulleted list styles I want in SecondTemplate.dot. But it's so frustrating that I'm trying to do things properly and it just doesn't work. Ack! "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Hi, Bullet styles require special setup, as do numbered styles. See: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word document http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. (For bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html, the subject is related.) If you are setting up your styles properly, so that some are based on others, so that some have settings for the style for the following paragraph, the Organizer breaks these linkages, but can restore them. To copy styles that are interrelated, copy them three times. That is, select all styles being copied, copy them. Then click the Copy button two more times, OKing overwriting. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Jen" wrote in message ... I am struggling along trying to learn about and properly use styles, but getting more frustrated by the minute. I have created a first template, FirstTemplate.dot, and I've "perfected" the styles in this template. Now I want to create a second template that's very similar to this one (these documents follow the same format but have different headings and content requirements). I figured I could use the Organizer to copy over all my lovely styles from FirstTemplate.dot into SecondTemplate.dot. For most of them, it worked OK, but I've found at least one glitch. I had set some styles for a hierarchical bulleted list (Bullet 1, Bullet 2, etc.). Although I keep copying the style from FirstTemplate.dot to SecondTemplate.dot in the organizer, and I confirm I want to overwrite, it still retains the normal bullet styles for SecondTemplate.dot (the main difference is in the paragraph indenting). I am getting so frustrated...although I am trying to use the proper styles and formats, I get foiled at every turn! Please tell me this does get easier eventually? TIA, Jen |
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Instead of using the organizer, why don't you just create a new template
based on FirstTemplate.dot? In the File New dialog, select FirstTemplate.dot and select the radio button for "Template." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jen" wrote in message ... I am struggling along trying to learn about and properly use styles, but getting more frustrated by the minute. I have created a first template, FirstTemplate.dot, and I've "perfected" the styles in this template. Now I want to create a second template that's very similar to this one (these documents follow the same format but have different headings and content requirements). I figured I could use the Organizer to copy over all my lovely styles from FirstTemplate.dot into SecondTemplate.dot. For most of them, it worked OK, but I've found at least one glitch. I had set some styles for a hierarchical bulleted list (Bullet 1, Bullet 2, etc.). Although I keep copying the style from FirstTemplate.dot to SecondTemplate.dot in the organizer, and I confirm I want to overwrite, it still retains the normal bullet styles for SecondTemplate.dot (the main difference is in the paragraph indenting). I am getting so frustrated...although I am trying to use the proper styles and formats, I get foiled at every turn! Please tell me this does get easier eventually? TIA, Jen |
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Thanks Suzanne - I could do that, but I've already created the second
template and put most of the content in it. (I created them both at the same time, then went in and fixed the styles in First Template...I've learned my lesson about doing that!). I don't really want to start over...in truth, it wasn't a lot of work to just change the list style in SecondTemplate.dot. It's just very frustrating that I can't seem to get these working properly, and I always feel like I'm missing something. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of using the organizer, why don't you just create a new template based on FirstTemplate.dot? In the File New dialog, select FirstTemplate.dot and select the radio button for "Template." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jen" wrote in message ... I am struggling along trying to learn about and properly use styles, but getting more frustrated by the minute. I have created a first template, FirstTemplate.dot, and I've "perfected" the styles in this template. Now I want to create a second template that's very similar to this one (these documents follow the same format but have different headings and content requirements). I figured I could use the Organizer to copy over all my lovely styles from FirstTemplate.dot into SecondTemplate.dot. For most of them, it worked OK, but I've found at least one glitch. I had set some styles for a hierarchical bulleted list (Bullet 1, Bullet 2, etc.). Although I keep copying the style from FirstTemplate.dot to SecondTemplate.dot in the organizer, and I confirm I want to overwrite, it still retains the normal bullet styles for SecondTemplate.dot (the main difference is in the paragraph indenting). I am getting so frustrated...although I am trying to use the proper styles and formats, I get foiled at every turn! Please tell me this does get easier eventually? TIA, Jen |
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Did you start out, though, with styles set up using each step (and only the
steps) in Shauna Kelly's articles? Transferring broken styles won't help. -- 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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Jen" wrote in message ... Thanks Charles, but that didn't seem to do it. I have FirstTemplate.dot in the left side of the Organizer, and SecondTemplate.dot in the right side. I select all the List Bullets from the left and click Copy (Overwrite-Yes) three times - or even four!! But when I go back to SecondTemplate.dot the original styles are still there...they're not indented like I want. As far as I know they have been set up properly - based on proper List Bullet formats as per the articles you linked. I'm thinking the only thing I can do is to manually create the bulleted list styles I want in SecondTemplate.dot. But it's so frustrating that I'm trying to do things properly and it just doesn't work. Ack! "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Hi, Bullet styles require special setup, as do numbered styles. See: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word document http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. (For bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html, the subject is related.) If you are setting up your styles properly, so that some are based on others, so that some have settings for the style for the following paragraph, the Organizer breaks these linkages, but can restore them. To copy styles that are interrelated, copy them three times. That is, select all styles being copied, copy them. Then click the Copy button two more times, OKing overwriting. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Jen" wrote in message ... I am struggling along trying to learn about and properly use styles, but getting more frustrated by the minute. I have created a first template, FirstTemplate.dot, and I've "perfected" the styles in this template. Now I want to create a second template that's very similar to this one (these documents follow the same format but have different headings and content requirements). I figured I could use the Organizer to copy over all my lovely styles from FirstTemplate.dot into SecondTemplate.dot. For most of them, it worked OK, but I've found at least one glitch. I had set some styles for a hierarchical bulleted list (Bullet 1, Bullet 2, etc.). Although I keep copying the style from FirstTemplate.dot to SecondTemplate.dot in the organizer, and I confirm I want to overwrite, it still retains the normal bullet styles for SecondTemplate.dot (the main difference is in the paragraph indenting). I am getting so frustrated...although I am trying to use the proper styles and formats, I get foiled at every turn! Please tell me this does get easier eventually? TIA, Jen |
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