I still don't understand though why you don't want to use styles, like why if you have a difficulty matching styles why you wouldn't ask for script to help with that part, and why you were saying before that you can't assign one material to multiple objects ??

Instead of 300 styles you end up with 300 object names and then have to set up all material assignments over again in your renderer and you end up with the same 300 materials in the end don't you?

- Michael