Modifying Existing Styles


Whether you modify a style that comes with Word or one you created yourself, as soon as you make the change, all the paragraphs formatted with that style in your document automatically update to reflect the new formatting in the style. (Any text formatted with the same style in other existing documents does not get reformatted.) Furthermore, you can save the modified style in the underlying template if you like so that the modified version will be available to new documents that you base on the same template.

To modify a style, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Styles and Formatting button in the Formatting toolbar to display the Styles and Formatting task pane. (It doesn't matter where your insertion point is when you issue the command.)

  2. Point to the style that you want to modify in the Pick Formatting to Apply list, click the down arrow that appears to its right, and choose Modify in the drop-down list (see Figure 9.10). (If you don't see the style, choose All Styles in the Show drop-down list.)

    Figure 9.10. Choose Modify to make changes to your existing style.

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  3. The Modify Style dialog box appears (see Figure 9.11). Notice that this dialog box is identical to the New Style dialog box shown in Figure 9.8, with the exception of the name in the title bar.

    Figure 9.11. Use the Modify Style dialog box to modify an existing style.

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    Figure 9.8. All the formatting that you've added to the style is listed at the bottom of the New Style dialog box.

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  4. Make any changes that you want to the style (see steps 58 in "Using the New Style Dialog Box" earlier in this hour ).

  5. If you stored the original style in the template and want the modified style to replace the original in the template, mark the Add to Template check box. (Otherwise, the modified version is stored in the document only; the version in the template remains unchanged.)

  6. Click OK to close the Modify Style dialog box.



Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office Word 2003 in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office Word 2003 in 24 Hours
ISBN: 067232556X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 315
Authors: Heidi Steele

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