On Tuesday 21 February 2006 06:50 pm, Pete Holsberg wrote:
> Solveig L Haugland wrote:
> > Here's a way to bring styles from one doc to another--the PDF
> > mentioned might cover this as well. Go to the document someone
> > submited to you, where you need to have your styles. Choose Format >
> > Styles and Formatting. Find the far-right top icon with the downward
> > facing black triangle, click on it, and choose Load Styles. In the
> > styles window that appears, mark all the types of styles you want to
> > bring in from your template, then click From File, select your
> > template file, and click Open. (If your template file is already
> > listed in one of the template categories shown, you don't have to
> > click From File.)
>
> The following approach doesn't seem to work.
>
> 1) Open new file using the template that has the styles I want.
> 2) Copy and paste the other doc into the new file.
>
> I would have thought that the styles in the new file would override the
> ones in the doc being pasted but that doesn't seem to be the case. I have
> to select each paragraph and double-click the style name.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
Suggestion: try this for step 2: copy and paste special. The Paste
Special window opens with several choices. Choose Unformated text. Click OK.
This removes the styles of the copied text. What is pasted will have the
styles of the new document into which it is pasted.
Dan
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