Copying Custom Styles to a New Template

If you have existing Word documents that have a lot of custom styles, you can copy all of those styles from your templates over to Doc-To-Help’s custom templates using Word’s Organizer. This is also very useful if you are creating new templates to use with Doc-To-Help and want to copy over styles from existing templates.

How to Copy Styles using the Word Organizer

Open the Word template into which you want to want to copy your custom styles.
Select File > Options. The Word Options dialog opens.
In the left pane, click Add-Ins.
From the Manage drop-down, choose Templates, then click Go. The Templates and Add-ins dialog opens.
Click Organizer. The Organizer dialog opens.
The left side of the dialog shows the current document, and the right side of the dialog shows a Word default template. To remove the default template from the list and replace it with your custom template or document, click Close File, then click Open File.
In the dialog that opens, navigate to the template or document that contains your custom styles, then click Open. Your custom styles appear on the right side of the dialog.
On the right side of the dialog, select the custom styles you want to copy to your new template. Click Copy to copy each style.

Note If a style has the same name as an existing style, you will be given the option to overwrite the existing style.
(Optional) If you need to delete a style, select it and click Delete. To rename a style, select it and click Rename.
When you are finished copying the custom styles to your new template, click Close.