UpdateStyles Method

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

UpdateStyles Method

       

Copies all styles from the attached template into the document, overwriting any existing styles in the document that have the same name.

expression.UpdateStyles

expression   Required. An expression that returns a Document object.

Example

This example copies the styles from the attached template into each open document, and then it closes each document.

For Each aDoc In Documents
    aDoc.UpdateStyles
    aDoc.Close SaveChanges:=wdSaveChanges
Next aDoc

This example changes the formatting of the Heading 1 style in the template attached to the active document. The UpdateStyles method updates the styles in the active document, including the Heading 1 style.

Set aDoc = ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate.OpenAsDocument
With aDoc.Styles(wdStyleHeading1).Font
    .Name = "Arial"
    .Bold = False
End With
aDoc.Close SaveChanges:=wdSaveChanges
ActiveDocument.UpdateStyles