Automatically Updating Styles in Word – have you used this option before to update Styles in your documents?
Automatic Styles update option in Word
We shall take Style Headings 1, 2 and 3 as examples. In the video attached below we have a master template (.dotx file) with Styles set as such:
Heading 2 is font size 13 Calibri light headings
Heading 3 is font size 12 Calibri light headings
In a new document let’s say it is using Styles too for Headings 1,2 and 3 but those Styles are on a different setting. Let’s say they are all Arial but font sizes the same and we wish for the document to have the standard Template Styles.
We will now go through a quick way in which you can do this below.
Steps to automatically update Styles in a Word document
Firstly, open the word document to be amended. Then:
- Go to File, Options and click on the Add ins option down the left hand side
- Then choose at the bottom of the screen Manage, Select Templates from the list and click Go
- This dialogue box appears
- Click Attach and navigate to where your template is stored (ours was in Custom Office Templates)
- Tick the box to automatically update document styles
- Press OK and the new document inherits the style settings from the template
The video below goes through how to use this feature in a Word document. We hope that you find the video useful and enjoy learning about it!
Take a look below at the video to find out more!
We hope you liked this hint and tip on how to automatically update Styles in Word, why not take a look at our previous one on using the currency Data Type in Excel?
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