DocumentBase.CopyStylesFromTemplate(String) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word

Assembly:: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v4.0.Utilities.dll

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Copies styles from the specified template to a document.

public:
 void CopyStylesFromTemplate(System::String ^ template);

public void CopyStylesFromTemplate (string template);

member this.CopyStylesFromTemplate : string -> unit

Public Sub CopyStylesFromTemplate (template As String)

Parameters

template: String

The template file name.

Examples

The following code example uses the CopyStylesFromTemplate method to copy the styles from the specified template to the current document. This example assumes that a template file named Sales96.dot exists on the computer at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates. To use this example, run it from the ThisDocument class in a document-level project.

private void DocumentCopyStylesFromTemplate()
{
    string template =
        "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Templates\\Sales96.dotx";
    this.CopyStylesFromTemplate(template);
}

Private Sub DocumentCopyStylesFromTemplate()
    Me.CopyStylesFromTemplate("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\" + _
        "Templates\Sales96.dotx")
End Sub

Remarks

When styles are copied from a template to a document, like-named styles in the document are redefined to match the style descriptions in the template. Unique styles from the template are copied to the document. Unique styles in the document remain intact.

Applies to