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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / November 2003** Custom Style - can't apply to old docs **
Product: MS Word 2002 1. 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? Addition: If you don't understand my above problem, please read the following illustration. ** Day 1 ** Doc1 --: A blank doc1 created Create: - Style A [old] = red, bold - Style B = blue, bold Save doc1 Close doc1 Save changes to normal.dot ** Day 2 ** Doc2 --: A blank doc2 created Modify: - Style A [new] = red, italic Save doc2 Close doc2 Save changes to normal.dot ** Day 3 ** 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? Hi Wai, There is no facility provided in Word for this. Possibly, you could place a macro named AutoOpen in the template that checks whether this option is activated for the document being opened. If not, it's activated by the macro. > Custom Style & Formatting are applied ONLY to new > documents. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > How can I automatically update the styles of all > documents (including the new and the old ones) BY DEFAULT? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.mvps.org/word This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Thanks for your reply. So how can I make a macro which: - check whether the style is update - If not, ask for confirmation for updating the styles OR just automatically update them >-----Original Message----- >Hi Wai, [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >. Hi Wai, > So how can I make a macro which: > - check whether the style is update > - If not, ask for confirmation for updating the styles OR > just automatically update them Something like this (watch out for line breaks caused by newsgroup transmission!): Sub AutoOpen() With ActiveDocument If Not .UpdateStylesOnOpen Then If MsgBox("Do you want to force the styles" & _ "to update in this document?", vbYesNo) = vbYes Then .UpdateStylesOnOpen = True .UpdateStyles Else .UpdateStylesOnOpen = false End If End If End With End Sub Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.mvps.org/word This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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