Office '07

I'm trying to follow your first link's direction to 'modify' a style using the by example method 2. My intent is to tell an existing style to mimic the 'entire' style of the current paragraph (although I have set the cursor in between words as directed, one would think that I should select the entire paragraph or group of paragraphs that I want the style to mimic?). However, I cannot find the modify style dialogue box anywhere within the styles drop down box (clicking on the tiny box at the lower right of the styles ribbon area). The link directions seem to be for a version prior to ribbons (and weren't those nice!) since it says 'Tools > Options > Edit > Prompt to Update Style'?

The reason I wish to modify by what I have in my document is that the more I read styles the less I like the thing and find it totally confusing <argh>!