Updating template from doc OR doc from template

[christophercbrewster via OfficeKB.com]

If I tweak styles in my document and sometimes forget to click "Add to
template", is there a way to tell Word "Add all my template-ish changes to
the template"?

If I've been tweaking styles in the template, is there a way to tell Word
"Modify this document to obey the latest version of the template"? Or at
least "Modify a particular style, or maybe all the heading styles, to obey
the template"?

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Christopher Brewster
Lockheed Martin, Eagan MN

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[Daiya Mitchell]

If I tweak styles in my document and sometimes forget to click "Add to
template", is there a way to tell Word "Add all my template-ish changes to
the template"?

You can use the Organizer to copy styles from a document into a template
(under Tools, maybe Tools | Macros, also available thru Tools |
Templates and Add-ins).

If I've been tweaking styles in the template, is there a way to tell Word
"Modify this document to obey the latest version of the template"? Or at
least "Modify a particular style, or maybe all the heading styles, to obey
the template"?

If you go to Tools | Templates and Add-Ins, it will show the attached
template for that document. If you check the "update styles" box there,
the document will pull the current style definitions from the attached
template. Don't circulate a document with that box checked, though, or
it might pull all the style definitions from the Normal.dot of the
person you send it to.

See the more detailed info here:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/templaterelations/index.html
http://shaunakelly.com/word/attachtemplate/index.html