On Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:18 AM [GMT+1=CET], Claudia Drechsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In Writer, the "New Style from >> Selection" icon has an arrow to access a menu with three choices. In >> Calc, this icon has no arrow and no choices. > > You can copy templates by this way: > open File/templates/organize > yout get a window with documents in one part of the window and > templates in the second part. Change both to "document". Then search > in one of the subwindows the file from which you want to copy > templates and in the other subwindow the target-file. When nesessary, > use the button "file" to do so. When you have the name of the > documents in your window, doubleclick them to get the template-liest > of each. > Now you can tear the templates from one file to the other. Simple > tear moves the template. If you press down the CTRL-Button when you > tear the template, that will copy it. Claudia, Would you please explain what this procedure does. Or point me at a document that does? First, it seems I cannot copy/move a complete template. Instead I must double click the template and then copy/move the styles one at a time. Is this correct or am I doing something wrong? What effect does this have on my currently open document? Does it copy/move only paragraph styles or does it do page styles, character styles, etc.? If I copy a style from an old document and I have a style with the same name in my currently open document, does the current text change to conform to the copied style? What happens if I *move* a style? Does it disappear from the old document? What happens to the old document's appearance? What effect does it have on the documents stored on my hard disk? The reason I ask is that when I copy a style (on Win XP Pro) I get a dialog that asks "Should the Default Paragraph Font Style be replaced?" If I say "yes", what happens the next time I open an old document? I hope the answer is "nothing" but ... Harold Fuchs London, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
