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Hi Barbara

1. Use File > Open to open the template. And apply every style in the
template at least once. In the Styles & Formatting pane, when you choose
to show 'Styles in Use' you need it to list every style in the template.

2. >My intention is to update styles from the template whenever the
user opens a doc.
In the military, you'd get a bravery award for that! Do you really need
to update them every time the user opens a document? Word really isn't
very good at doing this.

Shauna

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word




"Barbara" wrote in message
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>I am maintaining a template for myself and others in Word 2003.
>Recently I
> began to see some odd behavior when I open documents created before
> some time
> in January: namely, bulleted and numbered styles are redefining
> themselves.
> For example, every bulleted item (which is actually "outline
> numbered") has
> become sequentially numbered with a left indent of 0, regardless of
> its
> outline level. The numbered items have become bulleted. (There is some
> variation in what happens, but this is a typical scenario.)
>
> New documents are fine. If I create a new document based on this
> template
> and paste everything from the old document into it, everything is
> fine. Maybe
> I should be happy with this not-too-difficult remedy. But it just
> doesn't
> seem right, and I worry that I am heading for trouble.
>
> Also, manually asking to update styles from the template seems to do
> nothing
> at all to the older documents (i.e., those that are more than a month
> or so
> old).
>
> I suspect that some recently added macros are the problem, based
> mostly on
> the timing of the symptoms.
>
> The recently added macros come from the MVP article, "How to safely
> update a
> document's styles from its template without using the Organizer (and
> how to
> make the Tools + Templates and Add-ins dialog safe)" at
> http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/UpdateStyles.htm.
>
> Here's what I have done, following (I think) the advice in that
> article:
> 1. AutoNew() has one line: CommandBars("Hidden").Enabled = False.
> 2. AutoOpen() has the code found at the beginning of "Gotcha" 3. My
> intention is to update styles from the template whenever the user
> opens a
> doc. AutoOpen also has CommandBars("Hidden").Enabled = False.
> 3. AutoClose() has one line: ActiveDocument.UpdateStylesOnOpen =
> False.
> 4. ReplacementToolsTemplatesAndAddins() has the code found under
> "Gotcha"
> 3a. I also did all the rest of the steps described there (3b through
> 3e).
>
> I changed nothing in the code from the article.
>
> Here's what I want in the documents.
>
> I have defined List Bullet 1 through List Bullet 5 as per Shauna
> Kelly's
> instructions
> (http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bullets/controlbullets.html).
> These styles are associated with the list template (ListNum field)
> that I
> named Bullets and are outline-numbered.
>
> I have one other numbered style, named Note. That style uses simple
> numbering, customized with a number format of "Note:" (in orange and
> bold)
> and a number style of (None). The effect is that a paragraph tagged as
> Note
> automatically gets "Note:" and the appropriate hanging indent, without
> any
> actual numbers. As far as I can tell, I have no ability to associate a
> specific, named list template with this style.
>
> (We do have numbered steps and lettered sub-steps in the documents.
> But I
> have created a few macros to number them using SEQ fields rather than
> using
> Word's autonumbering. The macros are not very ambitious but produce
> very
> reliable sequential numbers and letters.)
>
> Perhaps it is relevant that many of the older documents have "Update
> styles
> from template" switched on.
>
> Any idea what might be going wrong here? Did I follow the directions
> wrong?
> Does the code in the article have any problems? Is this strategy of
> pasting
> the contents of each document into a new document really the best
> option for
> getting the bullets and notes back to their intended formats? (I sort
> of hate
> to do that, until I have some truly substantial edits for the older
> docs. An
> entry in the revision history of "Re-saved because something went
> wrong in
> the template" seems bad. But the docs now look weird whenever we open
> them.)
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read this long and complicated question!
> --
> Barbara Hill