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From: bernard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bernie Bernstein)
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Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0 --- First (and Last) Impressions
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Date: 7 May 89 23:43:33 GMT
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In article <3266@cs.dal.ca> gergely@xx.drea.dnd.ca (Peter J Gergely) writes:
>
>About copying separate styles from one document to another:
>
>Word 3.0 and 4.0 have always had the ability of copying one or more
>separate styles from one document to another.
>
>The procedure is simple, open the document from which you want to copy
>the styles as a normal document.  Select one or more paragraphs that
>have the styles you want to copy.  Copy them to the clipboard, and
>paste them into the document you want the new styles in.

It's even simpler than that:

Just open the document that you want to import the styles to and do
a Define Styles command.  When you are in the Style Definition mode,
you can Open... any other files.  The files that you load from this mode
don't actually Open the file, but rather load the styles into the
current context.

I use this all the time.  I created a set of "template" documents
which contain no text, just sets of styles.  When I write a new
report, I first import the styles by getting into the definition
mode and Open... my styles from the desired template.


>There is a caveat though.  If there is a style in the new document
>with the same name, its formatting is replaced by the one pasted in.
>This also presents a bug if there are paragraphs having modifications
>based on that style, as they default back to the raw style.  For
>example, a normal paragraph with different indents may revert back to
>being normal.


I haven't looked into what happens with my method, but it probably is
the same.

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