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From: teener@apple.com (Michael Teener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word questions
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Date: 16 Jul 89 00:52:15 GMT
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In article <942@key.COM> jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes:
> Yes, I knew this but it only applies to documents that you create 
thereafter.
> My problem is that I have a bunch of existing documents.  Changing the
> defaults does not change the existing settings in those documents.
> Unfortunately, the answer that I have gotten from Paul as well as other
> Word gurus is that I'm SOL.

You might try this: if you have a document with the new default styles in 
use, you can copy those styles into the old document by 1) open the old 
document, 2) bring up the "define styles" dialog, 3) select "open ..." 
from the file menu, and 4) select the new document with the new styles.  I 
am not sure if this merges the styles or replaces all old styles (all my 
docs have the same styles), but at least this allows me to update old docs 
with the new styles.

Is this what you wanted??

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