If you want every new document to have user-defined settings, you must create a new template and set it as default.
Create a new document, add or modify styles, and change other settings as you desire.
From the File menu, choose Templates -> Save.
Give the template a name.
Select a category in the Categories list (for example, My Templates).
Click OK to save the template.
Choose File -> Templates -> Organize.
In the Categories list, double-click on the My Templates folder.
Right-click on the template you want to use and choose Set as Default Template from the menu.
Click the Close button.
AutoNow wrote:... but only thing I've managed to do is make entire documents load as though the whole document was the template with word and all preloaded. ...
AutoNow wrote:The most confusing thing to me is how to use the templates organizer. I cant seem to identify the rhyme or reason to it, I've been fiddling with it trying to make y saved styles become a style template which I can assign as the default template, but only thing I've managed to do is make entire documents load as though the whole document was the template with word and all preloaded.
I don't want to preload words in my new documents, I just want to preload styles for the header drop-down formatting.
RoryOF wrote:These instructions in the tutorial seem to be very clear and straightforwardIf you want every new document to have user-defined settings, you must create a new template and set it as default.
Create a new document, add or modify styles, and change other settings as you desire.
From the File menu, choose Templates -> Save.
Give the template a name.
Select a category in the Categories list (for example, My Templates).
Click OK to save the template.
Choose File -> Templates -> Organize.
In the Categories list, double-click on the My Templates folder.
Right-click on the template you want to use and choose Set as Default Template from the menu.
Click the Close button.
What part of them do you not understand?
Bill wrote:AutoNow wrote:The most confusing thing to me is how to use the templates organizer. I cant seem to identify the rhyme or reason to it, I've been fiddling with it trying to make y saved styles become a style template which I can assign as the default template, but only thing I've managed to do is make entire documents load as though the whole document was the template with word and all preloaded.
I don't want to preload words in my new documents, I just want to preload styles for the header drop-down formatting.
You don't have to have any words in your templates, only the modified styles. You can open a new blank document, modify the styles, then save the blank document as a template. If you set this template as the default, then NEW documents will have the modified styles.
I want to be able to, from the comfort of the Paragraph Style dialog box, click on a button Make Style Default ...
Punungwe wrote:I want to be able to, from the comfort of the Paragraph Style dialog box, click on a button Make Style Default and that single style is made available in the template I used to create the document I am currently working on, or in the global default template.
Jhabar wrote: Clicking on 'Commands produces a drop down wind with but two options - Printer Settings . . and Update. Similarly, right clicking on the newly imported template produces the same two options.
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