Adding styles and fonts to Word 2000

This will be a confusing question because I'm quite lost.

I've inherited a system at work where the users were using Word97 on a NT.

When the users loaded Word, a wide variety of styles were displayed.
Since we're in the publishing business, only a certain style can be
used. These styles were somehow loaded by a .dot file (VBA).

We've upgraded to XP and now the styles are gone. Although I loaded all
options when I installed Microsoft Office only a few styles appear. At
home I have far more styles.

I took a pre-XP document that had the necessary styles and fonts, erased
the contents and saved the file as a mystyles.dot file. Loading this
file causes all the styles and fonts to be listed. Unfortunately, when
I go through the saving process (the file is automatically saved to a
database, not to the local computer), the file sometimes wants to be
saved locally as mystyles.dot.

Also, when the user opens a new document none of the special styles and
fonts appear. Actually, we only use one style, one font with one font size.

How can I find these styles and fonts and incorporate them into Word on
a permanent basis?

It confused me

Let's start with fonts - the fonts displayed must be installed on the local
PC and will only be displayed if the current printer driver is capable of
printing them.

Styles may be stored in documents or templates. If you want them to be
available to all documents, use the organizer to copy them from a document
that contains them to normal.dot. Each user should have his/her own copy of
normal.dot.

The better alternative would be to set all the users to share the same
workgroup folder and use your template to produce company documents - see
http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Bob wrote:
This will be a confusing question because I'm quite lost.

I've inherited a system at work where the users were using Word97 on
a NT.
When the users loaded Word, a wide variety of styles were displayed.
Since we're in the publishing business, only a certain style can be
used. These styles were somehow loaded by a .dot file (VBA).

We've upgraded to XP and now the styles are gone. Although I loaded
all options when I installed Microsoft Office only a few styles
appear. At home I have far more styles.

I took a pre-XP document that had the necessary styles and fonts,
erased the contents and saved the file as a mystyles.dot file.
Loading this file causes all the styles and fonts to be listed.
Unfortunately,
when I go through the saving process (the file is automatically saved to a
database, not to the local computer), the file sometimes wants to be
saved locally as mystyles.dot.

Also, when the user opens a new document none of the special styles
and fonts appear. Actually, we only use one style, one font with one
font size.
How can I find these styles and fonts and incorporate them into Word
on a permanent basis?