How do I duplicate a Word Style?

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I haven't been able to figure this out.
How do I duplicate a Word style?
I was asked this recently by a co-worker and I haven't been able to figure
it out but it seems like it should be possible.
I'm familiar with creating, applying and modifying styles. I also use the
Organizer.
1) My co-worker wants to create a style and copy the style so they can
modify a second style slightly. They do not want to have to go through all
the steps to create the second style and make the one, small change when the
orginal style has all of the starting formatting.
2) Also, I do NOT want the second style based on the first style as I do not
want the second style modified when I make changes to the first style.

Hope this isn't overly confusing.
Thanks for any assistance in advance!
Jugglertwo
 
If its not a built in style you can do as follow
Tools | Templates and Add-ins | Organizer

Copy the style you want to duplicate to normal.dot (or preferably some dummy
document) rename it, and copy it back. If you used normal.dot as you
temporary storage. Delete the style from normal.dot.

If its a built in style the same method wont work since you will not really
change its name, just give it a new alias.

I do not really know how to do this with a built-in style other than using
some VBA
 
Your suggestion worked great. I wanted to use it for a user defined style so
your directions were just right.
I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have been able to figure this one out
anytime in the near future by myself.
Thanks again and I owe you one!
You are the BESTEST :)
Jugglertwo
 
This sounds like an unnecessary rigmarole for a basic style editing
function. If you create a new style based on another style, then unlink the
'based on' style by changing it to based on 'no style', the original style
parameters are retained along with with your edits, but not linked to the
original style.

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Well I tried it. It worked kind of. It worked if you used no style as you
said. But if you wanted to base it on normal. Which might not be that
unreasonable, I discovered you had to first base the new style on the old
one. Then base it on no style and finally base it on normal to have it retain
all formating.

But that way sure seems easier anyway :)
 
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