"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Your assumption about styles is correct IF...

(1) You consistently use styles and only styles for your formatting, and
(2) You have the same style names in both templates, and
(3) Upon attaching the new template you check the box to update styles from
the template. (This last option should normally be unchecked, because
usually this is not desired.)


I have checked and the answer is Yes to all 3: the templates are Normal saved and fonts/line spacing etc redefined for the Normal style names.

Running a test, I typed one line in a doc using Normal, set it as Heading 2, attached my own template, the style updated, attached Normal again, ticked the box to update styles, zilch. (And this with a fresh install of Word just in case there was an issue of corruption somewhere along the line.)

This is a mystery to me now...