MS Word formatting - easiest way to ensure consistent formatting

[psimon1]

Hello

I am much more of an Access and Excel guy but wanted to throw this out to the Word experts. There has to be a way to automate this.

There are 36 separate documents and I'd like to ensure consistent formatting throughout. I'm on Word 2000. For example, I'd like to make sure that heading1 is Times New Roman bold, size 14, aligned left.

I've played around with the format/style organizer but still find this to be a manual process. I thought about macros and mass 'find and replaces' on formats.

Any ideas out there for a guy looking to save some time?

Thanks.

ps

 

[xlhelp]

Simplest way:

Highlight document.

Go to Format, Theme, click Style Gallery, choose a Style, click OK.

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[fumei]

Make a template (.dot) file the way you want it. Make all those document take that template. Whatever styles are in the template should be applied to the documents.

If all 36 are using the same template, then they should all be using the same styles in that template.

If that is not the case, you need to qualify this more, and give mor einformation.

If the 36 documents DO use the same template, but people have made manual changes to the style format, then it is a different question.

It would be: How to I change BACK styles that have been manually modifed?

Because if Heading 1 is formatted (in the template) as Times New Roman bold, size 14, aligned left, then you can be assured that every Heading 1 used for any documents based on that template will have exactly that as Heading 1.

That is what templates do.

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