Reapply a style to ALL of that styles paragraphs

[Alan]

I have a document where the paragraphs of one style have been formatted differently and I would like to bring them all back into the same formatting. I know I can select paragraphs and apply styles, but there are dozens of these paragraphs and they are scattered throughout the document. How can I reapply this one style throughout the document in one operation without affecting any of the other styles?

[admin]

Please read this post:
http://www.rssol.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=442

[Alan]

I have already employed that technique to change some paragraph styles. The document I have has a Normal style that through hand editing by someone or by copying and pasting from other documents is different in appearance in different places in the document. I wanted an easier way than to make Normal dependent on a different style and delete it, then make the new style dependent on Normal and delete the new style.

[BuffyBot]

I have a document where the paragraphs of one style have been formatted differently and I would like to bring them all back into the same formatting. I know I can select paragraphs and apply styles, but there are dozens of these paragraphs and they are scattered throughout the document. How can I reapply this one style throughout the document in one operation without affecting any of the other styles?

You could try adding the 'Update Style' button to your toolbar. Locate a paragraph that is normal style and make a change to the font size of that paragraph. Then press the update style button. The style should update globally. Then change it back to the font size or style you originally wanted and press the update style button again.

Not a one step process but it's easier than finding/changing every single stray style.

[BuffyBot]

You can also assign a hot key to 'update style'.

[Alan]

Thanks BuffyBot. The Update button works great, I would not have guessed there would be such a button.

[BuffyBot]

One thing to watch out for. If your paragraphs contain any scattered bold formatting and you update the style to all bold. Atlantis will bold all the text in that style-- except for the phrases that were already bold which invert to a normal font weight?? Is there a way to remove bold formatting from a style?

[admin]

You can remove any formatting characteristic from the desired style through the “Format | Style” dialog. But Atlantis would still retain the original difference between words which were initially in bold, and words which were initially in non-bold.

Every time you make changes to a style, or apply a style to a paragraph, Atlantis tries to retain the original formatting difference between separate fragments of this paragraph. For example, if you used bold to emphasize some words in your paragraph, and then you apply a style which includes bold (for example, the “Heading 1” style), the words which were initially emphasized with bold, would be still emphasized but with non-bold.

In other words, Atlantis applies styles to paragraphs smartly. It does not remove custom formatting from your paragraphs. In most cases, font formatting is used to emphasize something. Atlantis applies new formatting characteristics to your paragraph but still tries to retain the original emphasis.

But you might also wish to remove such custom formatting from your document. You could use the “Reset font format” command (the “Format” category). It updates the selected paragraphs by re-applying the associated styles to these paragraphs in a “harsh” way. No original emphasis is retained. Styles are re-applied “as is”. For example, if a style of a paragraph says “Arial, 11pt, bold”, and you use the “Reset font format” command, this paragraph would be entirely formatted in “Arial, 11pt, bold” regardless any custom formatting which was applied to this paragraph before.