Have you applied the new style to the text? It can be confusing, but just
creating the new style doesn't automatically apply it to the selected text.

On the other hand, if you change the *name* of the style then everything
called oldname will become newname. This doesn't apply to built-in styles
(like Heading 5) because you can't change the name .

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"Jackie D" wrote in message
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When I change a style in Word 2003 from, say, Heading to Subtitle, why
does
it still call it by it's old style name in the 'formatting of selected
text'
in the Styles & Formatting pane?

For example, I have a heading that is formatted with 'Heading 5'. I create
a
new style by using 'Title' in the styles list, which I then customized.
But
when I click on and off the text, I would expect it to say 'Title' for the
name of the formatted text but it still says Heading 5. It's very
confusing.
Can anyone help?
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Many thanks
JD