MS Word - How To Make Global Changes To Your Text Document Based On Paragraph Styles?

Imagine you have a long MS Word document- Modify...
containing all kinds of paragraph styles. What are- Delete...
you going to do if you'd like to indent all section- Update to match the Selection
headers SIMULTANEOUSLY by one tab to theSelect the "Select All X Instance(s)" option to
right and then change their color to red?highlight every piece of text in your document
Obviously the Find-and-Replace functionality is ofwhich has that paragraph style.
no help here. Yes, you can search for theThen click the right-indent button on your tool-bar.
paragraphs by their style but you need to type inAll the headers will be shifted towards right by
a search word or phrase. And after finding theone tab space.
headers with that specific style and search words,Then click the Font Color button on your tool-bar
you cannot select them all simultaneously for aand select Red. All your headers will be converted
global edit.to red.
Tracking such headers from the TOC (Table ofAnd you are done! Congratulations.
Contents) would also be very cumbersome andYou can do a much more thorough edit by again
again impossible to select simultaneously.selecting all instances of a paragraph style.
There is a very easy method to accomplish thatBut instead of changing the style through the
in a hurry.tool-bar buttons, you can display the Modify Style
First display the Styles and Formatting pane ofdialog box by selecting "Modify" from the
your document by selecting Format > Stylesdrop-down list of the paragraph style listed in the
and Formatting from your main menu.Styles and Formatting pane.
Select a paragraph style in the list. It will beEvery change you make in that dialog box will be
framed with a dark blue box.reflected instantly in every instance of that
Bring your cursor on top of the style name toparagraph style.
display the drop-down menu arrow.CAUTION: If you select the "Add to template"
Click the arrow to display the following options:check box and then click OK, you'll make the
- Select All X Instance(s)changes a permanent part of your style sheet.