Copying Styles

[Guest]

Hi,

Our office is on a network with a Document Management system. We have
Windows XP and Word 2003.

Is there a way to copy styles from one existing document to another existing
document without using the Styles Organizer? (It's a long story as to why
I'm asking, so I won't include that here!).

For example, I tried Insert - File, and inserted the document, but the
inserted doc took on the styles of the current doc (which I expected).

So, as far as I know, the Styles Organizer is the only way to copy styles
from one existing document into another existing document?

Thanks,

 

[Guest]

One option - though perhaps not the most elegant - Open the doc with the
styles, copy content formatted with the style & paste into the other doc.
You'll need to replace/delete the pasted content, but the style will be
retained.

Regards|:>)

Bob Jones
MVP Office:Mac

 

[Guest]

Hi - thanks for your response.

I didn't mention in my last post, but we had tried a copy/paste first. The
text did come in with styles intact, but those styles then took on the
attributes of the document we pasted it into.

E.g., Heading 1 in the old doc was different from Heading 1 in the new doc
.... the pasted text took on the attributes of the Heading 1 in the new doc.

Is it possible I did something wrong? I think the only keystrokes I
executed were CTRL + X and CTRL + V.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Your problem is that the styles have the same name in each of the two files.

Rename one or the other before doing the copy/paste... A file can only have
*one* file by any given name & Word is geared to retain the version already
in the target doc.

Regards|:>)
Bob Jone
MVP Office:Mac

 

[Guest]

Ok, thanks!