Understanding the Relationship Between Styles and Templates

In Chapter 6, you learned how to create a set of consistent styles and store them in a template. The styles available to your current document depend on the templates open at the time. These templates are as follows:

  • The Normal template.

  • Whatever template you based the document on, if you based it on a template other than Normal.dot.

  • Any other global templates that are currently loaded. Global templates are discussed in the following section. By default, no global templates other than Normal are loaded.

What if several templates are open, and each defines the same style differently? This happens often, even if you stay with Word's built-in styles. For example, Heading 1 is 14-point Arial ...

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