I am formatting some documents which should look the same in terms of style. 
So I set up styles for headings, etc. in one document, thinking that they 
would go into a general style database (like all styles). But when I started 
on the second document, I can't find the styles from the first one. Do I have 
to reset the styles every time, or make a special template to do this? I 
would like to avoid creating yet another template if I can. 

I'm using Word 2003.

Thanks,
Suroor

When you create a style, you must check the box for "Add to template" so 
that it will be saved to Normal.dot and be available to new documents you 
create. If you will be doing a lot of style creation or modification, it's a 
good idea to create a template specifically for that type of document; see 
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"suroora" <suroora@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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>I am formatting some documents which should look the same in terms of 
>style.
> So I set up styles for headings, etc. in one document, thinking that they
> would go into a general style database (like all styles). But when I 
> started
> on the second document, I can't find the styles from the first one. Do I 
> have
> to reset the styles every time, or make a special template to do this? I
> would like to avoid creating yet another template if I can.
>
> I'm using Word 2003.
>
> Thanks,
> Suroor
>