Question

Seems like there should be a simple answer here, but can't find it in Word Help, MS Office Online, or Google...

I simply want to be able to apply an external CSS stylesheet (standardstyles.css, e.g.) to the current document in Microsoft Word (2007). I've pored over the Styles menu, looked in all the classic formatting dialogs, but can't find anything.

Answer 1

Save your Word document as 'Web page (*.htm; *.html)'. This will give you a html document with an associated folder named after the document (e.g. Doc1.htm and Doc1_files).

Add your stylesheet to the folder and then link to it using:

'Developer' tab > Document Template > Linked CSS (tab) > Add...'

The css heading styles (h1, h2 etc.) in the stylesheet correspond to the heading styles applied within Word and the p style corresponds to the Word 'Normal' style. Similarly for lists and tables etc.