> Charles:
>
> I appreciate for the sound advice. I have started to review the link on
> templates you supplied and see that you have put considerable time and
> effort
> into helping other Word users. Thank you.
>
> And by the way, Madison's farmer's market is positively awesome! It's a
> must
> when I get to visit.
>
> Peace
>
> "Charles Kenyon" wrote:
>
>> Create new documents based on your new template. Paste text from the old
>> documents into the new documents as plain unformatted text. (Edit > Paste
>> Special) Apply styles as appropriate.
>>
>> Converted documents from Word Perfect contain extra baggage. You may want
>> to
>> first save these as plain text files and then copy the text from those
>> plain
>> text files.
>>
>> Graphics will need to be inserted one at a time.
>>
>> Sorry that I don't have a "push this button then use this menu choice"
>> solution for you. What you are attempting is labor intensive if you want
>> to
>> end up with a good result.
>>
>> Finally, save your new documents as templates. Use those templates for
>> the
>> creation of new documents.
>>
>> For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new
>> dialog,
>> and locations of templates folders see
>>
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.>> --
>>
>> Charles Kenyon
>>
>> Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word>>
>> Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
>> Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide>>
>> See also the MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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>> from my ignorance and your wisdom.
>>
>> "cayce" <cayce[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:87CC3598-D15D-4FBB-82DE-9867E40017F0[ at ]microsoft.com...
>> >I am going to be tasked with applying a new template to about 65
>> >proposal
>> > documents. Some of these documents had an earlier life in Word Perfect.
>> > Some
>> > are very graphic intensive and large in file size; others are mostly
>> > just
>> > text intensive. Further, these current documents are inconsisently
>> > formatted
>> > (hence the need for a new template). By this I mean page setup,
>> > headers/footers, logos and their size, styles names and their
>> > definitions,
>> > and some have left/right pages while most are set up for single page.
>> > I
>> > do
>> > not think any single document exceeds 80 pages. All use outline
>> > numbering
>> > for
>> > heading levels and this much I know will be true in the new template.
>> >
>> > I do not yet know what other changes there are to be in the new
>> > template,
>> > but I would like to be looking ahead to what could become a massive
>> > amount
>> > of
>> > work.
>> >
>> > I am operating in Word 97 SR2. Does anyone have a sound stategy they
>> > can
>> > offer without knowing more of what the nuts and bolts changes are in
>> > the
>> > new
>> > template. Or, is it best to wait and see what the new template contains
>> > before forming a strategy.
>> >
>> > Any guidance or suggestions would be most appreciated.
>>
>>
>>