letter sent, proposal made) you may not want it changed. If the document is a record of something already done (e.g. On the other hand, you may NOT want the template to update the document. For example, an organization changes its document formatting guidelines. If the template has changed, you may want the document updated to reflect those changes. You’ve attached a different template to the document – Word needs to know whether to use the styles saved in the document or use the styles (of the same name) in the newly attached template. That makes sense in the context of this templates dialog box. The label should read ‘Update document using template style settings’. The document is updated based on the template styles. What’s being updated? The template styles or the document? You’re totally forgiven for wondering what’s going on. This is one of those poorly worded Word labels.
This where you can see which template is attached to the current document and change if necessary.
There are several similarly worded options to do with ‘Style’ and ‘Automatic’ so let’s be clear … we’re talking about File | Options | Add-ins | Manage | Templates | Go | Templates and Add-ins | Templates … we did say ‘deep’ inside Word. The good news is if you dont need the full suite of Microsoft 365 tools, you can access a number of its apps online for free - including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Calendar and. What does that do and which documents are affected? In a recent tutorial, we used Word’s caption tool to insert table titles and figure captions.One of the main benefits of using this tool is that Word will automatically number new tables and figures as you add titles and captions (e.g., Table 1, Table 2, Table 3). Step 1: Press Alt-F11 to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window Step 2: Click Module on the Insert tab, copy and paste the following VBA code into the Module window Step 3: Then click Run button to apply. Deep in Microsoft Word is the choice “Automatically Update Document Styles”. This tutorial shows how to update table and figure numbers in Microsoft Word. Alternatively, we can use VBA code to update or refresh the caption numbers.