Hi Mark (K) Please excuse my delay in responding to this one. (I have been so flat out.) Using Ctrl+Shift+S to select the style field in the tool bar (depending on the tool bar being displayed at the time) is one I've long used for creating new style names for selected paragraphs and re-applying or updating styles to selected paragraphs, with much success, except in Word 2003, which often replaces the style name with "char". That said, if the style name is present in that field, or you are happy to use the up or down cursor arrows from within that field to browse to the style name (a list of styles pops up when you do so) that you are after, you can use Ctrl+C to copy that selected style name into the Windows paste buffer, then as you select paragraphs that you want to change to the copied style name, press Ctrl+Shift+S to re-select the style field, then Ctrl+V to paste the style name you want into that field, then press Enter. Word will either change the selected paragraph to that style for you or, if you have selected a paragraph of the style name you want, will ask you to update or restore the style in question. (Much quicker to do than the above seems to indicate.) Another of my favourite style imposition tricks is to select the paragraph marker of the style you want and either paste over or paste before the style you want to overwrite / replace. (You need to make the paragraph markers visible to do this and must use the actual "P" shaped marker hard carriage returns, not the curved arrow soft carriage returns.) Remember that Word is paragraph based Word processor, not an object based destop publishing tool, so it embeds all of its style information for a paragraph in the paragraph end itself. Copying and pasting / changing paragraph markers in Word, therefore, gives you considerable control over paragraph styles. With that in mind, you can also use the find / replace tool in Word to replace a paragraph marker (^p in Word parlance) of one style with the paragraph marker of another style. Great for making fast, global changes throughout a document file. But handle with care. (If you go too far, you can always press Escape to close the replace dialog, then press Ctrl+Z to undo - or Ctrl+Y to redo, should you change your mind or wish to observe / check the paragraph changes.) Hope that helps. Michael Granat Write Ideas www.writeideas.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------- From: mkofler@xxxxxxxxxxxx To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:57:38 +0800 Here is something I came across that in the techwr-l archives I seemed to have missed in my long years of using Word. I don't think it is documented, at least not in the Word 2003 Help. Seems an old dog can always learn new tricks... This is from: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/archives/0405/techwhirl-0405-00015.html: "I prefer to apply styles by pressing Ctrl+Shift+S, then typing the style name and pressing Enter. I don't want to have to type "Heading 3," so I create an alias by appending a comma and "h3" to the existing style name in the style definition dialog box. Word displays it the same way in the style selection drop-down list: Heading 3, h3 Once this is set up, I can press Ctrl+Shift+S, type h3, and press Enter to assign the Heading 3 style to the current paragraph..." Anyone else have any useful or obscure Word tricks to share? Cheers Mark ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************