Applying changes to normal.dot to existing documents

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Henrik

I've made some changes to normal.dot (in this case, a bit of fiddling with
the bullet structure but I don't think that influences the answer) and would
like to apply the new normal.dot an already existing document (here, to
benefit from the new bullet structure). This seems not to happen
automatically so how do I do?

Thanks
Henrik
 
If it's just a matter of styles (and it sounds as if it might be), you can
reattach the template (Tools | Templates and Add-ins) with "Automatically
update document styles" checked (be sure to uncheck it again after doing
this), but this will not change any document-level formatting such as
margins, header/footer, etc. To do that, you would have to create a new
Blank Document and insert the text from your existing document into it.

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