** PRoblem: Apply Custom Styles to all doc**

PRoblem: Apply Custom Styles to all doc

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Wai - 08 Nov 2003 21:28 GMT

Custom Style & Formatting are applied ONLY to new
documents.
Documents made previously will retain the old styles.

To the old documents, I need to apply my new styles to
them by:
- clicking on "Tools --> Templates and Add-ons" --

> "Automatically update documents styles"

How can I automatically update the styles of all
documents (including the new and the old ones) BY DEFAULT?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 08 Nov 2003 22:18 GMT

If you have modified existing styles and saved the changes to the template,
then the procedure you describe should work. If you didn't save the changes
to the template, or if you added new styles, then this won't work.

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> Custom Style & Formatting are applied ONLY to new
> documents.
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> How can I automatically update the styles of all
> documents (including the new and the old ones) BY DEFAULT?

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- 10 Nov 2003 15:49 GMT

I try to illustrate my problem.

Timeline:

Doc1 --:
A blank doc1 created
Create:
- Style A [old] = red, bold
- Style B = blue, bold
Save doc1
Close doc1
Save changes to normal.dot

Doc2 --:
A blank doc2 created
Modify:
- Style A [new] = red, italic
Save doc2
Close doc2
Save changes to normal.dot

Doc3 --:
A blank doc3 created
Save doc2
Close doc2

Problem:
Each doc contains non-standardized style formatting.

Doc1:
(As it was created ago, it kept old style formatting)
- Style A [old] = red, bold
- Style B = blue, bold

Doc2:
- Style A [new] = red, italic
- Style B = blue, bold

Doc3:
(New subsequent doc created followed the new style
formatting)
- Style A [new] = red, italic
- Style B = blue, bold

How could I solve these kinds of problems?

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