How to transfer styles between documents in Microsoft Word For Mac?

I have created a style and set a format for it. I click on ‘Add To Template’ and I expect that the style will be added to the normal.dot template and the next document I open will have this style that I created. But that doesn't happen. I tried quitting word etc. but the new style I created is never available in other documents. Also next time I open the style in the original document where I created the style in the 'Add To Template' is unchecked. Another minor problem is that when I try to create a new style from selection it never copies the attributes of the font (like color, italics etc.) into the style. But I usually set these myself to workaround the problem. The style can be applied seamlessly into that current document but doesn't transfer between documents.