From the course: Word: Formatting and Styles in Depth (365/2019)

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Create styles from existing formatting

Create styles from existing formatting

- [Instructor] When I have a document that was created using Styles, I have the ability to access other tools like the table of contents creator, which we'll talk about in a bit but the navigation pane where I can rearrange my document. And when I have a document that I've created using Styles, if I change my style set, my document changes. If I change my theme, my document changes. So if I have some texts from another document and I paste it in here, it will automatically be reformatted using the theme and the styles in this document. I can make a different choice on paste if I want to but by default in it's going to pop and it will look just like texts that was originally created in this document. You can create a lot of documents in Microsoft Word and never use a style. Here's an example of a document that was created without using Styles even though it's well formatted, even though it's relatively well formatted,…

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