Applying a Revised Template to Existing Documents

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Guest

Hi everyone,
We have created a template that we are all using for a training lesson plan.
The problem we are having is that we made a modification to the template and
we need to now update over 200 lesson plans. The templete does include sytle
but that is not what we are looking to update, it is more like a standardized
form that the instructors fill in information relating to the course name,
audiance and so on. How do I apply lessonplan r2.dot to all the existing
lesson plans so it brings in the changes we have made? I don't want to have
to cut/paste the information from these 200 existing lesson plans!...
 
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Dayo Mitchell

Attaching a template doesn't carry over text. Sounds like you need to run a
batch find & replace on multiple files.

I believe the most recent instructions for doing so are located here:
http://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm

Although if your 200 plans are not on the same computer, may not work....
 
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Chad DeMeyer

Jay,

Unfortunately, that is not how templates work. When you create a document
from a template, it inherits its initial page layout, content, styles,
macros, autotext, and (keyboard/toolbar) customizations from the template.
From that point forward, it retains access to macros, autotext, and
customizations through a link to the template, unless it is attached to a
different template (Tools>Templates and Add-Ins) or if the template is
inaccessible when the document is opened on another computer. Additionally,
the styles in the document can be updated from the template by toggling a
setting in the Templates and Add-Ins dialog. But after the document is
created, its content and layout is completely independent of the template
upon which it is based. The document/template relationship does not expose
any special method for updating content and layout other than the same
methods that you would use when trying to copy content and format from any
one document to any other. You may want to take another look at Dayo's
suggestion.

Regards,
Chad
 

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