Re: [libreoffice-users] copy styles from Writer document?

On 28 March 2013 14:03, Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/28/2013 01:56 PM, T. R. Valentine wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to copy the styles used in one Writer document to
> > another?
> When I want to copy styles from one Writer document to another I have
> a few steps that I do after opening the document whose styles I want to
> change:
>
> 1) Open the Styles and Formatting window (F11).
> 2) Click the "New Style from Selection" and click "Load Styles"
> 3) Check all of the checkboxes: Text through Overwrite.
> 4) Click "From File".
> 5) Browse to the file and select it.
> 6) Click the Open button.
>
> I have been doing this since OOo2.0 or perhaps before. Today it worked
> for LO 4.0.1.2. Just now it worked for 4.02.2 as well.
>      Has anyone else tried this?

I just gave it a test and it seems to work as well — better in some
ways, not as well in others. (The document from which I wanted to copy
styles had special paragraph, character, and page styles and I really
didn't want to have to go through manually creating them again.)

Thanks to all for the help.

--
T. R. Valentine
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and clothes.' -- Erasmus

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