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How to import the text from another docx but change the formatting
Good day. I have five documents. All five should have exactly the same content (text and footnotes) but different formatting and layout (paper size, font size, line spacing, columns, etc.). I...
Styles are the key to this.
- Create your base document. This should not have any columns set (i.e. be a single column).
- Create new documents with the layouts you want and use an IncludeText field to bring in the text from the original document.
- Change styles for font size and line spacing. Your new documents have any differences in column formatting.
- Make any changes in your base document when needed.
- To transfer those to the derivative documents, open them, select all, and press the F9 key to refresh the IncludeText Field.
After changing one document, save it, and then use File Save As twice to save it with the same filename as the other two documents so that it replaces each of them by clicking on OK with the "Replace existing file" item selected when you see a dialog advising that a file with that name already exists.