A Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) forum. OfficeFrustration

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » OfficeFrustration forum » Microsoft Word » Formatting Long Documents
Site Map Home Register Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read  

cannot manually copy styles



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #21  
Old September 17th, 2004, 11:07 AM
Genine
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default

I remember some time ago finding a MSKB article that stated that list bullet
styles, list number styles and outline levels above 5 would corrupt when
copied from one document to another using the template organiser. The
Microsoft recommendation at that time was to create your own bullet styles
rather than using the existing list bullet styles in Word, and to use VBA to
copy outline or bulleted styles from one document to another, but it didn't
give sample code. I cant' find it any more. It was for Word 2000.

Anyway, suffice it to say that this can be a problem, particularly if you
have documents from other companies that you want to convert to use your
house style numbering . The way we got round it in the last place I worked
was to import the styles via XML on creating the document. We used a third
party product called WordExchange to do this. They are based in Reading,
Berkshire.

Genine



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Copying numbered styles from one template/document to another frequently
fails. I'm told you have to do it several times, but I have not personally
had any experience with this. Would it work to create a new document based
on the template that has the desired styles and use Insert | File to bring
the existing document into it?

--
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.

wrote in message
...
yes
-----Original Message-----
Have you defined the indents and tab settings in Format |

Numbering (*not*
Format | Paragraph)?

--
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.

"Eileen Cowan" wrote in message
...
I have set up the numbering properly. I also lost

bulleted
list styles. The styles keep the numbers and bullets

but
lose the indents and tab settings. The big problem is
that I have to fix these styles in each document where
this happens because I cannot copy the styles from

another
template.


-----Original Message-----
Hello Eileen

Eileen Cowan wrote:
I am using custom templates with many bulleted and
numbered lists. These styles lose their formatting
often
and when I try to copy the styles to or from another
template to make corrections, the styles will not

copy
correctly. The only way I can fix styles is to
reformat
the style or styles in each document.

Are those styles losing "only" numbering-related
formatting, or other
stuff (font, size, etc.)?

Have you setup your numbering according to the

following
specifications?

Numbering:
See the section on "Numbering, bullets, Headings,
Outlines" (by Shauna
Kelly)
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/
Word's numbering explained (by John McGhie)

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/...beringExplaine
d.htm
How to do it in VBA (by Dave Rado)

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/...tNumbering.htm

Greetinx
..bob
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word
.


.



 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
trying to copy a sheet Jeff Gyarmathy General Discussion 1 September 15th, 2004 06:19 PM
Adding styles and fonts to Word 2000 Bob New Users 1 August 14th, 2004 06:14 PM
Styles do not change when underlying template is changed GG General Discussion 8 July 30th, 2004 10:46 AM
How to correct and/or add styles to an existing document? Peter Sale Formatting Long Documents 5 July 25th, 2004 04:49 AM
update styles per new template Ellen Finkelstein General Discussion 10 July 9th, 2004 05:29 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 05:47 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 OfficeFrustration.
The comments are property of their posters.