You can do a much more thorough edit by again selecting all instances of a paragraph style.īut instead of changing the style through the tool-bar buttons, you can display the Modify Style dialog box by selecting “Modify” from the drop-down list of the paragraph style listed in the Styles and Formatting pane.Įvery change you make in that dialog box will be reflected instantly in every instance of that paragraph style.ĬAUTION: If you select the “Add to template” check box and then click OK, you’ll make the changes a permanent part of your style sheet. Whichever style you use, though, to prepare for applying chapter headers you should: Select a style and customize it as required Go through your work applying the chosen style. Chapter titles are the main headings in a document, so they would usually be formatted with Heading 1. Note: If you don’t see the Styles section, make sure that the Home tab is selected. The Heading styles in Word are used for headings and subheadings. All your headers will be converted to red. Right-click on the style you wish to alter from the Styles section of the ribbon and click on Modify in the menu that appears. Then click the Font Color button on your tool-bar and select Red.
All the headers will be shifted towards right by one tab space. Then click the right-indent button on your tool-bar. Select the “ Select All X Instance(s)” option to highlight every piece of text in your document which has that paragraph style. It will be framed with a dark blue box.īring your cursor on top of the style name to display the drop-down menu arrow.Ĭlick the arrow to display the following options: There is a very easy method to accomplish that in a hurry.įirst display the Styles and Formatting pane of your document by selecting Format > Styles and Formatting from your main menu. With your cursor in the Find What box, hit Morethen click the Format button. Find and replace will help me accomplish my task. Tracking such headers from the TOC (Table of Contents) would also be very cumbersome and again impossible to select simultaneously. I want to change all my Heading 4s to Heading 5, Heading 3s to Heading 4s, and so on. And after finding the headers with that specific style and search words, you cannot select them all simultaneously for a global edit.
Yes, you can search for the paragraphs by their style but you need to type in a search word or phrase. Obviously the Find-and-Replace functionality is of no help here.
What are you going to do if you’d like to indent all section headers SIMULTANEOUSLY by one tab to the right and then change their color to red? Imagine you have a long MS Word document containing all kinds of paragraph styles.
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