One possibility that might work for you is to save your document content as
an autotext entry.
You could then create templates that contain the page layouts that you
require each using the same style names that you have used in the document,
but with the different configurations you require for your different
layouts. Create a new blank document from the template then insert the
autotext entry. You could even create an autonew macro to automatically
insert the autotext when you create that new document.
I can foresee problems with headers/footers etc but it may get you started.
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Scott Meyers wrote:
[Quoted Text] > I want to create a document that I can render on different output
> devices that have different sizes and capabilities, e.g., monochrome
> PDF for paper publication, color PDF with the same page size for
> reading on a computer screen, monochrome PDF of a different page size
> for Kindle publication, color PDF of yet a different page size for
> iPhone publication. (Kindles and iPhones don't actually care much
> for PDF files, but please ignore that and focus on the general
> motivation for multiple output formats.) Does Word offer support for
> this kind of multi-platform publication?
> It seems to me that there are two fundamental issues: (1) page
> dimensions and (2) style definitions. Regarding page dimensions, I'm
> thinking it might be possible to create Word templates (.dot files)
> that contain nothing but page dimension information (including things
> like offsets for running headers and footers, etc.). Let's call
> these "page dimension templates." If this is possible, changing the
> page size for the document would require nothing more than linking it
> to a different page dimension template. Is this a workable idea?
> Regarding style definitions, I'm committed to use styles throughout
> the document, but I may want different definitions of a single style
> for color and monochrome devices. For example, for color devices I
> may want character style A to print red and character style B to
> print blue, but for monochrome devices, I'd want A to print
> underlined and B to print bold. (The document itself would simply
> specify whether text should use style A or B.) A complicating factor
> here is that if I were to decide to change, say, the font I'm using
> everywhere (on both color and monochrome devices), I'd want to change
> it in one place, but have that change reflected in the style
> definitions for both color and monochrome devices. So I want to have
> a "master" style for A that can be overridden, in part, by "derived"
> versions of A that change only, say, the font color or boldness or
> underlinedness. Does Word offer a way to do this?
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> Scott
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