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