If you use the Styles Library (you'll need to read up a little first) then
you can create a central library which stores all your colours and materials
which all files can then reference.
Basically, all materials can be made available to all files, old and new
without any effort (once the library is set up)
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Rory
"summit" wrote in message
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> Sorry,
>
> I forgot to mention, I have R9.
>
> Jeff