[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You'll note that I began with "In Word 2002 and above," which pretty much
eliminates Word 2000.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Paul" wrote in message
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On Jul 31, 9:51 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
However, I was
wondering if there was a way to conveniently have the style name of
interest take on the formatting of a paragraph of interest without
going into the style definition and manually setting up the details?
I already have "Automatic Update" turned on.

In Word 2002 and above, you can select a formatted paragraph, click the
arrow beside the style of interest in the Styles & Formatting task pane,
and
choose Update to Match Selection. But if the paragraph is actually *in*
the
style in question, you should be able to reselect the style in the Style
dropdown, which will trigger a dialog asking if you want to update the
style
to match the selection. But if you have "Automatically update" enabled
for
the style (that is, in the Modify Style dialog), this should be happening
automatically.

In Word 2000, I've never seen a style pane along the right side like
in 2003. Neither have I found a way to activate such a pane. There
is only style drop-down menu at the top. The styles that show there
have no down-arrow that generates a list of actions that include
updating the style to match the selection. This is when I select a
paragraph style other than that of the selected paragraph.

However, if I choose open the style drop-down menu and select the same
style name as the one for the selected paragraph, I am indeed asked
whether I want to update the style definition, or re-apply the
formatting of the style to the paragraph.

One out of two ain't bad -- thanks!

"Paul" wrote in message
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That is quite some useful trivia there. When I pressed ctrl-Q on a
proper-looking paragraph, it reverted to the look of the improperly
formatted paragraph having the same style name. That tells me that
the underlying style was not properly set, which was the cause of the
anomalous behaviour. Easy to fix handraulically. However, I was
wondering if there was a way to conveniently have the style name of
interest take on the formatting of a paragraph of interest without
going into the style definition and manually setting up the details?
I already have "Automatic Update" turned on.

On Jul 30, 8:39 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote:

In this case, since the text already has the correct style, there is no
need
to find & replace. Instead, in order to reset text formatting to that
of
the
underlying style, just select the text and press Ctrl+Q (resets
paragraph
formatting) and Ctrl+SpaceBar (resets font formatting).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"Paul" wrote in message

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Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and
use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word.

I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all
occurances of a style with a new style. Is there a way to do this?

While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens
that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced,
but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that
style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere