There is no further link between the styles in a document and those in the original template unless When you create a document the document will automatically inherit all the styles from the template. How to Update your Document Styles Automatically ? Highlight the first heading and apply some manual underline formatting.Īll three headings will be changed since the actual Heading 1 style has been updated. Make sure the Automatically update checkbox is ticked and save the changes. Using the Styles and Formatting task pane click Heading 1 and select 'Modify' from the drop-down list. We will now change this paragraph style so that it will update automatically to reflect any manual changes. Lets create a new blank document with three paragraphs of text formatted with the paragraph style Heading 1. There is an option that allows you to define which styles are allowed to automatically update. This allows you to manually reformat one line and your entire document is automatically updated. It is possible to have your styles automatically updated when you perform manual formatting. By default once a style is defined it is reasonably difficult to change it.
