On 28 March 2013 14:03, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> 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 Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.' -- Erasmus -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
