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Subject:Re: Word 2013 Styles Fun From:Char James-Tanny <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com> To:salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com Date:Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:54:37 -0400
Make sure your doc is pristine. Perfect. That you've used based styles,
that no styles are based on or followed by Normal (style), and that
everything is exactly the way you want. Verify your page layout, margins,
and headers and footers.
Then save it as a template.
You can remove the content, replace it with text that explains why the
style is used, or leave the content. If the template will only ever be
assigned to other docs, then it doesn't matter what the content is.
Char James-Tanny ~ JTF Associates, Inc. ~ http://www.jtfassociates.com
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Back to my 85pp inherited DOCX based on an ancient 2008 template created by
> someone who knew not what they were doing. Today virtually every style in
> my living document has been modified--mostly using a manual process.
>
> My assignment is to create a new report template, based on my
> highly-modified DOCX, with only those styles that are *actually
> used*residing in the template. Many of the styles will have custom,
> workplace-related names to facilitate intuitive use by folks who have
> better things to do than to guess which style to apply to what.
>
> Given that I know how to save a new style based on what I'm looking at in
> the living document, what's the *uber*-quickest way for me to learn the
> step-by-step methodology to template creation, given the parameters I've
> cited? (I don't have a lot of time to spend on this, so reading a book
> isn't going to help me in this situation.)
>
> Might there be an online reference that is right to the point? Maybe a
> YouTube video, PPT presentation, web page or some other insta-guide?
>
> Thanks!
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