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Chapter 10. Mastering Styles, Templates,... > Changing Document Formats Globally
Changing Document Formats Globally
When Word creates a new document, it copies the entire contents of the template to the new document—text, pictures, headers and footers, and so on—and then establishes a link between the document and template (so, for example, styles in the template become available in the document). With one possible exception, nothing from the template gets copied into the document after a document is created. For example, if you change the Normal template so that its default font is Garamond 11-point, all new blank documents will have Garamond 11-point—but all old documents based on the Normal template will stay just as they are.
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There’s one huge exception to this rule: If you open the Tools and Add-Ins dialog box from the Word Options Add-Ins tab (select Templates from the Manage list and click Go), and then click the Automatically Update Document Styles check box, Word updates a document style if one exists in the template with the same name. This option is good news if you always, without exception, want template styles to control the look of a document, as you might in a corporate environment, where maintaining a standard design is essential. But if you sometimes create styles within a document, avoid this option.
