RE: MS Word - changing old docs to new styles

["Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>]

>Unfortunately, everything is in MS Word, and I'm not having too much
luck
>finding any way to do the work other than slogging through the docs
making
>replacements for everything by hand, hoping I'm doing it right, and
then
>checking up to make sure Word hasn't decided to mess up something else
>while I was in there. Yes, I attach my new template instead of
Normal.dot,
>but there's still all the by-hand work to do.

Just to check the obvious thing first; when you find a piece of text in
an existing style to change, are you using the Select All button to
change every single instance of that style in the document?

I once discovered that the reason I was managing to reformat our docset
(marketing dictated a rebranding) several times faster than the other TW
was that he hadn't noticed he could do that.

S.
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Sarah Bouchier 
Technical Author 

exony 
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