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Import Word Processor Styles Into Publisher

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

If you want your Microsoft Publisher documents to match the styles you've previously used in your Word Processing documents, you can speed up formatting by importing styles.
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: NA

Here's How:

  1. Open the Publisher publication that needs the styles you plan to import.
  2. Choose Format | Text Style from the menu.
  3. Choose Import new styles.
  4. Select your word processor from the list of supported word processer formats in the Files of Type drop-down box.
  5. Go to the folder where your word processing documents are located and selected the file that contains the styles you want to import.
  6. From the list of styles in that document, delete any you don't need or make changes to any of them, if necessary.
  7. Choose Close. The dialog box closes and styles are imported to your Publisher publication, ready for use.

Tips:

  1. You can only import styles from supported word processors -- those listed in Step 4.
  2. If you've spent a great deal of time setting up special styles for use in your word processor you can save yourself time by importing those styles to Publisher.

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