Do you have an important document that needs a tweak to the pre-set/used style and want to achieve this without having to go through the entire document and update it manually?

You might want to apply a change to a default setting for a particular pre-set style to modify the font or size of a particular heading style. Using Microsoft Word 2013 the following steps detail how to do this.

  • From the Styles box on the Home Ribbon, right mouse click on the Style you want to amend, this will show a dropdown menu

    Microsoft Word style window with dropdown menu open
  • From the dropdown menu click on Modify, this will open the Modify Style dialog box/window and simple formatting changes can be made from the tools within the centre of this box

    Microsoft Word Modify Style Window

  • Changing the colour, font and size is done in the same way as if you were doing this inside the document

    Microsoft Word Modify Style Window Format

  • For additional formatting options, such as indents or to specify spacing before/after a paragraph/heading, click on the Format button

    Microsoft Word Style Group on Ribbon

You will notice that the Style is updated in the Styles group box and you can see this on the example below:

Microsoft Word Document Heading Format

Who knew updating a pre-set style could be so easy? No more manual, time consuming alterations on documents!

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