Manage outline levelling with automatic template update

[Guest]

Hi all,

Here is the problem : I need to link several Word documents to a unique
central Template, in order to use the same look and feel for all the
documents.

Then, I defined my styles in the template and used this template in each of
the documents (template attached through the Tools/Templates and Add-ins
pane, and "Automatically update" checkbox checked in order to take any
modification).

For some of my documents, all works fine: text is displayed as expected, and
styles reflect exactly that has been defined in the template.

For some others, all is going bad for outline levelling and numbering.
For instance : despite the fact "PseudoTitre" style is defined as "Body
text" outline level in the template, Word systematically update it as "Level
1" outline level at the document opening.

What's going wrong with these documents?

Word version: 97

Thanks in advance,
Jean-Pierre

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?RXhpc3BhbQ==?=,

The automatically update styles feature hasn't worked very reliably since Word
97 was introduced. It wasn't updated to take new things, such as outline levels
and the new numbering into account.

Do you get any better results if you use Tools/Template and Add-ins/Organize to
copy the styles from the template into the documents?

Here is the problem : I need to link several Word documents to a unique
central Template, in order to use the same look and feel for all the
documents.

Then, I defined my styles in the template and used this template in each of
the documents (template attached through the Tools/Templates and Add-ins
pane, and "Automatically update" checkbox checked in order to take any
modification).

For some of my documents, all works fine: text is displayed as expected, and
styles reflect exactly that has been defined in the template.

For some others, all is going bad for outline levelling and numbering.
For instance : despite the fact "PseudoTitre" style is defined as "Body
text" outline level in the template, Word systematically update it as "Level
1" outline level at the document opening.

What's going wrong with these documents?

Word version: 97

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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