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Click on the “A with a tick”, which opens the Manage Styles dialogue.In the Styles ribbon group, click the breakout arrow in the bottom-right corner to open the full set of Styles options.Open the document you want to copy the correct style from.The process involves finding an obscure Organizer dialogue: I did find a fix though!įaced with a stubborn Heading style that had lost its numbering a few weeks ago, I stumbled on a Microsoft Answers post that told me how to copy a style from one document to another. I haven’t found the cause but I suspect it’s text copied from incorrectly-formatted documents with similar style names. Common things I’ve learned to spot are that indentation is wrong on bulleted text, or that headings lose their numbering. I sometimes find that the styles in a Word document get corrupted when I’m working collaboratively. There’s more information about customising and creating styles in this Microsoft support article. If you’ve ever created a website using HTML and CSS, you’ll be familiar with separating the content from the presentation. The style groups together all of the associated formatting so you can pick Normal text, Heading 1, Heading 2, Bullets 1, Bullets 2, Subtitle, Quote, Emphasis, etc. Instead of selecting the font, size, colour, indentation, bold, italic, etc. If you’re not familiar with styles, they are a method to apply standardised formatting to a block of text. I’m a heavy user of our corporate template and, over the years, I’ve worked with colleagues to iron out issues in the built in styles.