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Message: [QUOTE="Jeff, post: 14217179"] I've read about styles and templates but am confused. I have several very long and complex Word 2002 documents and I wish to use a new customized "template" to modify their elements (font, paragraph settings, headings, etc.). I have never done this so this is all new to me. I have the impression that I could change a document's settings by simply telling Word 2002 to apply the different new style, and all the font, headings, paragraph settings will be reset. Is that true? If the answer is yes, I have 2 questions: 1. Creating the template (.dot). I've created a new template by simply saving an existing document as a template. I've got the correct fonts and paragraph settings. I assume that if I change the headings styles they will automatically be saved to the new template. Correct? Can I also delete from this new template "old" settings for headings from the default style that I no longer need? How? 2. How do I apply the new template to a document created using the default Word template? Thank you and sorry for the basic questions. [/QUOTE]