Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to transfer styles among documents created from the same template?

Am 31.01.2012 22:56, schrieb Dan Lewis:
> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:03 +0000, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> > > "Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote in message 
> > > news:4F21B5E1.3000001@kdbg.org...
> > > I have custom document template, and from this template a handful
> > > software manuals were authored. Styles were used extensively. Now it's
> > > time to modernize the look of the manuals, but we don't want to repeat
> > > the style changes in all manuals. (That's what styles are for, aren't 
> > > they?)
> > >
> > > With MS Word (2000), the .doc files recorded the template. Styles can be
> > > marked so that when they were changed while editing one of the .doc
> > > files, that style changes were propagated to the template. Later, when
> > > one of the other .doc files was opened, it copied all styles from the
> > > template (automatically), which effectivly updates the other file as well.
> > >
> > > What is the workflow with LibreOffice to propagate style changes between
> > > .doc files created from the same template? I looked at the documentation
> > > and help pages around the template manager, but found only means to copy
> > > styles manually. Is there something that works more automated?
>
>      I have been trying to understand what you want to do nor what you
> have done. Is the custom template created using LO? (Then it's extension
> is .ott.) This template was used to create a handful of software
> manuals. So now you want to change the template and with it change only
> some of the software manuals? Are you going to make any changes in the
> the rest of the software manuals?

Guided by a post in a different thread here I headed over to
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ and read the chapter
about templates. That clarified half of what I need.

I want to edit one of the manuals, transfer new and updated styles to
the template, and then apply the updated template to the other manuals.
The template documentation explains that the latter step works
automatically.

I am not sure about the former step, yet, i.e., whether it is possible
to copy the updated styles from the manual to the template without going
to the Template Manager and copying the styles manually.

Part of my problem is that I have converted the manuals from MS Word and
there is no template associated with the manuals now. I'll have to use
Template Changer.

Thanks,
-- Hannes

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