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If you use styles in your documents, there is a very powerful feature you can use. The Next Style feature is defined when you set up a style and indicate what Word should use as the style following this one.
For instance, let's assume you have two styles defined—Figure and Caption. The Figure style is used for figures in your document and it is always followed by the Caption style, which is used for the figure caption. You can set the Next Style for the Figure style so that when you press Enter, Word automatically makes the next paragraph a Caption style.
Figure 1. The Modify Style dialog box.
When modifying a style, you may want to select the radio button called New Documents Based On This Template. This saves the changes you are making in the template file for use in other documents.
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2013-12-22 11:54:41
Surendera M. Bhanot
I was always afraid of using styles. But you Tips have worked wonders, I am no longer a novice. Yet I still need to learn a lot. Thanks.
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