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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Updating Styles From Selections</title>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3155915"><bookmark_value>Stylist, see Styles window</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>styles; updating from selections</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>templates; updating from selections</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>Styles window; updating from selections</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>updating; styles, from selections</bookmark_value>
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<h1 xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3155915"><variable id="stylist_update"><link href="text/swriter/guide/stylist_update.xhp" name="Updating Styles From Selections">Updating Styles From Selections</link>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149838" role="listitem">Choose <menuitem>View - Styles</menuitem> or press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><keycode>Command+T</keycode></caseinline><defaultinline><keycode>F11</keycode></defaultinline></switchinline>.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156107" role="listitem">Click the icon of the style category that you want to update.<comment>UFI: use "category" for consistent wording, see #i21144#</comment></paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149283" role="listitem">In the document, click from where you want to copy the updated style. For example, click a paragraph to which you applied some manual formatting that you want to copy now.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153402" role="listitem">In the Styles window, click the style that you want to update.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153119" role="listitem">Click the arrow next to the <emph>Style actions</emph> icon and choose <menuitem>Update Selected Style</menuitem> from the submenu.</paragraph>
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      <note xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0310200910360780">Only the manually formatted attributes of the text at the cursor position in the document will be added to the style that is selected in the Styles window. Any attributes that were applied as part of a style will not be added to the updated style.</note>
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         <embed href="text/swriter/guide/stylist_fillformat.xhp#stylist_fillformat"/>
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         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155498" role="paragraph"><link href="text/swriter/01/05140000.xhp" name="Styles">Styles</link></paragraph>
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