I have a large document that has several paragraph styles scattered throughout the document. I need to change one style and have it propagate automatically throughout the document. I have looked extensively on the internet and can't find a solution to this. I really don't want to have to go to each paragraph and click on it to change it to the new parameters in the style.
Does anyone have a solution or suggestion to fix this problem
You could go through and delete the styles you don't need. When you do that, it will ask which style you want to replace it with. This way you will delete all the styles and just replace them with a few select ones. Now you end up with only a few, which is manageable. Here's what I mean:
Let's say you have 100 styles scattered in the document and they are called "Style1"..."Style100". Instead of having 100 styles called "StyleN", you would like to have only 3 for "Heading", "Content", and "Small".
So you start with "Style1", and click on its name in the style editor.
The popup menu will have a menu item called "Delete style".
When you select "Delete style" you will get a dialog asking which style you want to replace this deleted one.
You select the style you want to replace it with, and you select one of your newly predefined one (Heading, Content, or Small)
You do this for the rest of the 99 un-needed styles. Sorry, it's a little work but wouldn't take more than 10 minutes.
Now you effectively got rid of 100 various styles, and substituted all of them with just 3 (Heading, Content, and Small).
And now you can simply edit one of the three and they will propagate through the doc. Much easier to manage.
Other than this, I don't know of a 1-click solution.
However, if I misunderstood your question, and you want to keep all the various styles in the document, then you can just...
Select the portion of the text in the document (or simply place the cursor within the document) which has the particular style you want to change.
Then you change the style to whatever you want.
At this point the blue "Update" button appears next to the style name in the style editor.
You click "Update" and now the style has been changed.
I also don’t understand the OP. The idea behind styles is that you can do exactly that: take one style and change it so that it propogates through the whole document. If you marked the proper places with the style in the first place this takes one second. If you didn’t - that is where it will take forever. I learned long ago to use styles and set my headings and subheadings correctly. It also helps develop your index.
