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>>Quite true, and another good reason to use styles for such sweeping format
>>changes.  Explaining these fully is beyond the scope of one posting (and
>>seemingly most books about Word :-), but one of these days I may cobble
>>together a Word FAQ list that would cover it.  Any interest out there?

>I for one certainly am interested, as I get hopelessly confused by them.

Styles are not at all difficult. The reason people don't use them is often
because they are convinced it is hard to learn.

To show you how simple styles are to use, here is my simple lesson on how
to use styles (skip to step 4 if you are sure you know how to format text
properly):

1. Make damn sure you know how to use formatting features such as indents
(including hanging indents), tabs (DON'T use default tabs, set them!),
Shift Return (to start a new line without starting a new paragraph), and
paragraph formatting features such as "keep with next". You should also
know how to use the Tables feature if you do tables and the side-by-side
feature if you do things like CVs (although Microsoft discourages the use
of side-by-side in favour of tables - each to their own I guess). 

2. If unsure about step 1, go back to step 1 (hint, RTFM or take a course
or both). Styles don't do you much good until you've got the basics down.

3. OK, now you're ready for styles. Don't panic!

4. When you've got a paragraph formatted the way you like and you think
you will use this format again, simply make sure your cursor is in the
paragraph, click in the Style box in the ruler, type in a name for the
style and press Return. You'll get a dialog asking you if you want to
define a style based on the selection - you do. Congratulations, you've
just made your first style.

5. When you want to use a style you've created, all you do is select the
desired text and then select the desired style from the style bar. 

6. If you want to delete a style, select the Styles menu item, select the
style you want to delete and cut it (Command-X or Cut from Edit menu).

7. If you change your mind about a style, (e.g. you want style "quote" to be
a .75" indent instead of 1"), just change one of the paragraphs using this
style to the way you want, reselect the style and then you will get a
choice to either "reapply" the style or "redefine" the style. Select
redefine and all text using this style will automagically change as well.
Now we're talking POWER!

8. If you really want to see power, make the style for the main headings
in your document to be "heading 1" (must be lower case), the next level
headings, "heading 2", the next level "heading 3", and so on. You can then
generate a table of contents based on "outline" automagically. This ties
in very neatly with the "toc" styles. For more info on these and other
"automatic styles" such as the infamous "page number" style, RTFM. :-)

Hope this helps. Have fun!