Microsoft KB Archive/108813

Changes to Default Style Sheet Do Not Appear in Old Documents

PSS ID Number: Q108813 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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========================================================= 3.00 3.01 3.02 4.00 5.00 5.10 MACINTOSH kbusage ———————————————————————— The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Word for Macintosh versions 3.x, 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1 == 

= SYMPTOMS =

Changes made to the default style sheet while in one document do not appear in other existing documents.

For example, in a document called Memo, you create a style called Date and add it to the default style sheet. Date appears in new documents and in your Memo document, but not in old documents. Similarly, if you change an existing standard style in Memo, such as Heading 1, and add the change to the default style sheet, old documents do not take on the change.

= CAUSE =

Word behaves this way so that styles in documents retain the formats that you assign to them, regardless of changes made in the future in other documents. Changes made to the default style sheet while in one document apply only to that document and to new documents. Changes never apply to other existing documents.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Word offers several techniques for copying styles from one existing document to another. For information about copying styles from one existing document to another, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

macword and style and copy and source and destination

= REFERENCES =

For additional information about working with styles, consult the Word manual as follows:

“Microsoft Word User’s Guide,” versions 5.x, pages 169-196 “Reference to Microsoft Word,” version 4.0, pages 340-353 “Reference to Microsoft Word,” version 3.0, pages 346-365

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