Do styles stay with the doc?

[Ed from AZ]

I created some new styles, both paragraph and character, for a certain
report. If I turn this report over to another person, will those
styles go with the document? Or are they resident on my machine and
need to be transferred to the other person?

Ed

 

[Jay Freedman]

I created some new styles, both paragraph and character, for a certain
report. If I turn this report over to another person, will those
styles go with the document? Or are they resident on my machine and
need to be transferred to the other person?

Ed

The styles do stay with the document. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/templaterelations/index.html for
explanation.

One caution: Name your styles so they're unlikely to have the same names as
styles in other peoples' documents. That will avoid the mess you get when
text is copied/pasted from one document to another and that text has a style
with the same name but a different format than a style already in the
destination. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.html.

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[Ed from AZ]

Thanks for the assist, Jay! The info is greatly appreciated.
Ed