Best Way to Create New Styles -- Using Style Based On Feature for Ripple Effect?

[Editor]

I use certain heading styles with a particular paragraph formatting as a group, for example various APA style heading levels together with an APA styled paragraph.



I want the styles to be set up so that they can be easily modified to match any font. Perhaps there's a way to set them up so no modification is necessary, by cleverly using the "based on" feature.

I'm also wondering if I were to use Normal as the "Style based on" for the group, would the group of styles that I import from my, say, Normal.dotm template, take on the Normal font features of the target document (such an effect would be ideal for my purposes)?

Many thanks.

[Stefan Blom]

Office 2007 and later offer several ways to quickly change the font. If you specify the font as "+Heading" for your headings, the style they actually display will depend on your selection at Home tab | Change Styles | Fonts.

As far as "Style based on" is concerned, if you copy a style that is based on the Normal style into your document, the settings for Normal in the target document will determine the formatting of the copied style. (Note that if you have explicitly changed a setting, such as the font, in a style A which is based on a style B, A will no longer reflect changes made to the font in B.)