If you use defined styles in your documents, Word has a very powerful search capability that allows you to find not just text, but defined styles as well. To search for defined styles, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
Figure 2. The Find Style dialog box.
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2020-05-29 12:07:51
Beth Savage
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2019-11-28 08:14:19
Sajit Viswan
I have a 100+ page document with 3 Level numbered paragraph. It uses modified built in styles of Header 1, 2 and 3.
The font size used in this document for the Styles is not the same as what is intended.
I am trying to copy from a template file the Styles Header 1, 2 and 3. I thought that this would allow me to find an replace the styles used with the proper one from a template .docx file that I keep. Copying the styles from file A (template) to B (file that needs the correction) overwrites the Heading 1, 2 and 3. I tried to rename the styles in B. That does not work either. Is there a way? (see Figure 1 below)
Figure 1. Styles with some charaacters
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