Is it possible to have 'cascading style sheets' in word?

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Can someone tell me if it's possible to have 'cascading style sheets' in
word?

What I want to do: have several documents. Within the documents, I will
have different types of text, like heading, paragraph etc.

I want to have one cetnral file that controls how each of the text type
looks.
So, I make a change in the central file, then the changes will be
automatically made in all the other documents.

Is this possible? Does anyone undertsand what I'm talking about!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.


OM
 
OM,

It doesn't work quite the same way it does in HTML and they're
not called cascading and they don't work in the background,
i.e., without you opening each file... but: yes, you (sort of)
can do that:

- Define or collect your styles in a Word template (.dot file)
- To apply them to a document:
- Open the document
- Click Tools­> Templates & Add-Ins
- Click Attach
- Browse to the template containing the styles; click Open.
- Check the 'Automatically update document styles' box
- Click OK.

Note that this updates the styles for, but does not override
any manual formatting applied in, the document.

If you leave the Update box checked, this will happen every
time you open the document thereafter. To an webhead that
probably sounds ideal, but it can work out less than ideal
in Word, and it's most often advised to uncheck that box
after updating. Your mileage may vary.

You can put the open/attach/update/[uncheck] cycle into a
batching macro that does it to every file in a folder, to
approximate the effect of CSS. But this can be a bit more
risky in Word than in HTML, so you'd need to be very sure
of what you're doing and VERY good at applying formatting
via styles only.

Post back if you want to muddy your feet with this. You would
need to learn some VBA to build and tweak the required macro
if you want to do it in bulk as mentioned.
 
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