![]() So, if you want to preserve the styles in your document, don’t tick the Automatically Update Document Styles box in the Templates and Add‑Ins dialog. If you based your document on the Normal Template, and leave that box ticked, and send the document to me, then all the style definitions in your document will be over-ridden by the styles definitions in my Normal Template. That's the so-called Normal Template, and everyone has one. However, you and I both have a file called normal.dot (in Word 2007 and Word 2010, it's normal.dotm). So Word can’t update the styles in the document. ![]() I don't have a template called ReportTemplate.dotx, so Word would have nothing from which to update the styles. ![]() Imagine that you create a document based on a template named ReportTemplate.dotx, you leave that box ticked, and you send the document to me. If it finds a template with the same name, then Word copies the styles from that template to the document. If that box is ticked in your document then, when Word opens the document, Word searches for a template with the same name as the one to which the document is attached. You ticked the Automatically Update Document Styles box in the Templates and Add‑Ins dialog. When Word opens a document, it doesn’t care about the styles in the template on which the document was based … This box is one source of the urban myth, so read on. To update the styles in the document, in the Template and Add-ins dialog, tick the Automatically Update Document Styles box. In Word 2007 or Word 2010: Developer > Template. To get the Templates and Add-ins dialog, in Word 2003: Tools > Templates and Add‑Ins. To do that you need the Templates and Add-ins dialog.
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