copy styles from Writer document?

users
#1

Is there an easy way to copy the styles used in one Writer document to another?

#2

Yes, there is. Go to the File-->Templates-->Organize. Open the document you want to copy from in one window, and then the document/Template you want to copy to in the other, and click and drag. I explain it with screenshots here:

http://www.ahuka.com/?page_id=461

Regards,

#3

... unless you are using 4.0, in which it is not possible. See #60589:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60589>.

#4

Brilliant!

I figured it was in the Organise Templates, but I did not know one
could double-click on 'Styles' to get to individual styles (only knew
the first double-click to get to 'Styles' of the document). Doing it
with 'Styles and Formatting' window open (F11) and set to show
'Applied Styles' made it easy to know which styles to copy.

I've bookmarked your page for future reference.

Many thanks.

#5

Oh my, that is not good. Thanks for the correction.

#6

Then I will have to consider myself fortunate the Ubuntu archives
haven't updated to 4.0!

#7

You and me both.

#8

When I want to copy styles from one Writer document to another I have a few steps that I do after opening the document whose styles I want to change:

1) Open the Styles and Formatting window (F11).
2) Click the "New Style from Selection" and click "Load Styles"
3) Check all of the checkboxes: Text through Overwrite.
4) Click "From File".
5) Browse to the file and select it.
6) Click the Open button.

      I have been doing this since OOo2.0 or perhaps before. Today it worked for LO 4.0.1.2. Just now it worked for 4.02.2 as well.
      Has anyone else tried this?

--Dan

#9

I just gave it a test and it seems to work as well — better in some
ways, not as well in others. (The document from which I wanted to copy
styles had special paragraph, character, and page styles and I really
didn't want to have to go through manually creating them again.)

Thanks to all for the help.

#10

I retain the install files from the LO website for earlier installs so if they drop off my distro repository I can always go back and use the earlier version.
Steve