Any way to remove part of a style/revert parts of styles back to Normal?

[Colin Higbie]

Running Word 2003 on Win XP.

I have a heading style that has Arial 14pt Bold Italic as its font, but I'd
like to strip that out so it's whatever the Normal Style is (such that if I
change Normal, this heading also automatically changes). I can see easily
enough how to change the font to a specific font, but not how to change it to
being unspecified, which is what I think I need to do to have it get its font
from the Normal style.

Is my assumption correct and, if so, how do I remove formatting options from
an existing Style?

I don't want to delete the style and start over, I just want to remove a few
specific attributes (just font and size in this case).

Thanks,
Colin

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hi Colin

I have a heading style that has Arial 14pt Bold Italic as its font, but I'd
like to strip that out so it's whatever the Normal Style is (such that if I
change Normal, this heading also automatically changes). I can see easily
enough how to change the font to a specific font, but not how to change it to
being unspecified, which is what I think I need to do to have it get its font
from the Normal style.

Set the style to be based on Normal style, and then assign it the same
font as its parent.

Greetinx
..bob

 

[Colin Higbie]

That's exactly what I don't want to do.

I need to REMOVE the font so if I change the font for Normal for a given
document, the Heading font changes also. I do not want to specify a specific
font. If I do that, then change the font for Normal, the Heading will again
have a different font from Normal.

How can I do this? In WordPerfect, I'd just go into the Style definition and
delete the font settings.

Thanks,
Colin

 

[Colin Higbie]

Oh, wait, am I wrong? Does changing the font to be the same as the current
Normal font, remove this as a differentiating factor? So I set it once to
match Normal, but in the future, if the font in Normal changes, my Heading
style will also change automatically to match?

Is that right?

Thanks,
Colin

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Oh, wait, am I wrong? Does changing the font to be the same as the current
Normal font, remove this as a differentiating factor? So I set it once to
match Normal, but in the future, if the font in Normal changes, my Heading
style will also change automatically to match?

Is that right?

Yep!

Greetinx
..bob