Templates and Styles

See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matChange.html

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"WebColin" wrote in message
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OK, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. For now, I'm just
working
on my own computer. I'm not sure I'll ever share the template, but it's
sure
good to know. In general, I push docs to uneditable PDF's when I'm ready
to
distribute them.

If that box is unchecked, can a document be distributed as a Word doc
without being mangled on other machines (assuming at least that they have
the same version of Word)? What about between Mac and PC, how good are
those
conversions and what happens to OLE objects (I guess that's getting a
little
off-topic, but I'm eager to learn)?

Thanks,
Colin


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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If Word can't find your template, it will update your styles to those in
normal.dot. When you move it to a different computer this will happen.
The
results are seldom predicted or desirable.
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"WebColin" wrote in message
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Can you elaborate on, "You won't like what happens you do." What would
happen?

Thanks,
Colin


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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Note that it generally a _bad_ idea to leave the option to update
styles
from the template checked. You won't like what happens if you do.
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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:58:12 -0500, "WebColin"
wrote:

I have a document based on a template I created. In document
properties, it
correctly shows my template.

I thought that as I'd been making style changes in the template, they
also
showed up in the document based on that template, but now I'm not
sure.

Certainly, now, as I make changes to styles in the Template, they are
not
appearing in the document based on that template.

Is there any way I can be sure that the document accurately reflects
the
styles of its template?

Thanks,
Colin

Word 2003, Windows XP, latest updates and SP's to all.


Hi Colin,

Changes you make in a template's styles *never* have any effect in
existing documents unless you take further action. Here are some
articles that explain what you're seeing and what you need to do:

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/atta...ate/index.html, the
"Styles" section 2/3 down the page
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UpdateStyles.htm

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