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Updating your Styles Automatically

By default once a style is defined it is reasonably difficult to change it.

It is possible to have your styles automatically updated when you perform manual formatting.

This allows you to manually reformat one line and your entire document is automatically updated.

There is an option that allows you to define which styles are allowed to automatically update.

Automatic Changes

Lets create a new blank document with three paragraphs of text formatted with the paragraph style Heading 1.

We will now change this paragraph style so that it will update automatically to reflect any manual changes.

Using the Styles and Formatting task pane click Heading 1 and select "Modify" from the drop-down list.

Make sure the Automatically update checkbox is ticked and save the changes.

Highlight the first heading and apply some manual underline formatting.

All three headings will be changed since the actual Heading 1 style has been updated.