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

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Manage styles and style sets

Manage styles and style sets

- [Instructor] When I was first creating styles, I didn't always give them great names, so I learned how to rename styles out of necessity. If I choose a style like K Product, which I forgot to put a dash into, and I'd like to add a dash, like I have in K-Head and K-Head 2, one way to fix this is to open the Styles pane. I'm going to park it over here. K Product Name, because one of my choices here is to modify this, and one way to modify it is to change its name slightly, or change its name a lot. And now it's in alphabetical order after K-Head 1 and K-Head 2. What if I want to delete a style? Well, deleting a style is just as easy, but it does have ramifications. For example, if I delete K-Head 2, K-Head 2 is based on Heading 2, so all of my K-Head 2s will revert to Heading 2s. If I delete K-Product Name, it's based on normal, so all of the text that's formatted using K-Product Name will then be formatted as…

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