G'day "donna" <donna@discussions.microsoft.com>,

Usually people want to map old styles to new styles. www.editorium.com
sells megareplacer to do just that really easily and really cheaply.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)
Without prejudice

donna reckoned:

Hi Donna,

You don't want to delete all styles, since the text would revert to Normal
style.
Copy the styles from the template to the doc, then delete unused styles.

For the second part, you can find macros such as the one from
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.vba.general/browse_frm/thre
ad/40cb22fdea5c5627/2cf2810d6d94d7b4

If you don't want to confirm all the deletions manually, change the "If
.Found = False Then ... End If" to

If .Found = False Then
   If myStyle.LinkStyle <> ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleNormal) Then
       myStyle.LinkStyle = ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleNormal)
   End If
   myStyle.Delete
End If

Regards,
Klaus