cannot manually copy styles

[Eileen Cowan]

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.

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hello Eileen

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

Greetinx
..bob

 

[Eileen Cowan]

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.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you defined the indents and tab settings in Format | Numbering (*not*
Format | Paragraph)?

 

[Guest]

yes

-----Original Message-----
Have you defined the indents and tab settings in Format | Numbering (*not*
Format | Paragraph)?





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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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?

 

[Genine]

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