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may have found the meaning for this option on the internet, from the following University of Wisconsin Eau Claire source:
www.uwec.edu/help/Word07/AUTO-fmtastp.htm
This states:
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Define styles based on your formatting
Word creates a style based on your manual formatting of a paragraph. This style is then accessible from the Style pull-down list on the Formatting toolbar
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This is not, it seems, some amazing AI-inspired way of formatting a document heuristically!
What it does do is the following:
If you apply some formatting changes to some text, the text appears in the Style Menu, formatted with said formatting changes.
So you can select the style as a whole in one mouse operation for some other text.
This makes it easier and quicker to get exactly the same format.
It means, if you wish, you can ignore the inbuilt styles of heading 1 etc, and simply martial your own styles by example, without ever giving them names.
This is powerful if you like to design documents on a one-off basis, by refining their appearance.
One may not have realised that Autoformat is required to produce this effect.