ANOTHER WORD FOR CONTENT WRITING UPDATE
You’ll update these later (Step 13) with the new headings.
DO NOT copy across the old table of contents, list of tables, or list of figures.Manually complete all the cover page (and other front matter) information in the new doc.If you want to preserve any existing comments or track changes from the old doc, make sure track changes is turned OFF in BOTH docs-the new AND the old.Start a new document based on the new template.How I deal with putting a complex document onto a new corporate template: You can either do this as you go (after each paste), or wait until the end and do it all in a separate pass. Alternatively, make a copy of the old doc, apply the new template to it and fix all the styles first, before copying across the content. You may still have some tweaking to do with applying the correct styles.Make sure formatting marks are turned on so you can see the section breaks.The method that causes me the least grief is the one below. Oh, and before you ask, yes, I’ve tried every which way to simplify the process below, but each one just adds more time overhead to sorting out the document after I’ve pulled it over. As for a simple document, the process will be much smoother if the style names in both docs are the same.
ANOTHER WORD FOR CONTENT WRITING PLUS
It’s really the section breaks that will cause you grief, plus totally different cover pages and headers/footers. My docs have cover and front matter pages, lots of document automation, outline numbered headings, potentially hundreds of cross-references, many section breaks for landscape and A3 pages, appendices, tables of contents/tables/figures, headers and footers populated with data from the cover page (we used to have odd/even headers/footers too, and various page numbering formats, but we got rid of those some time ago because they just added a lot of overhead for no real value), etc. However, for a more complex document, like the ones I work on, it’s not so simple.
reapplying styles), but you should be done. You may have a few tweaks to do with the formatting (e.g. If it’s a simple document in one section, with basic formatting, few-if any-cross-references, uses the same page layout throughout, has little (or no) document automation, etc., then just applying the new template may well be enough (assuming the style names in both are the same). And what it depends on is the complexity of the document. Someone asked me the other day what my ‘best practice’ was for applying a new template to an existing Word document.
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