Word Tip 1: Reapplying Styles

Have you ever needed to reassert a style in Microsoft Word? For example, change all the paragraphs tagged with body back to the real body style. You can reapply the style to each paragraph manually, but that’s really painful especially since Word persists in getting this exactly backwards and making you confirm each change:

Word reapply style dialog

Instead you can make one quick global change with search and replace. Simply search for the style (no text) and replace it with itself:

Word search and replace dialogs

Click “Replace All” and you’re done. the style will have been reapplied to all occurrences, whether that’s three or three hundred.

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