Managing styles across multiple documents or templates

By default, styles are defined only in the document where they are created.

To save a style for use in future documents, you need to select the Add to Template option in the Modify Style dialog box.

When a style is saved in a template, it will be available to new documents based on that template.

Changes to a style in a document do not update the style in the template. To update the template, you need to select the Add to Template option in the Modify Style dialog box.

Changes to a style in a template do not, by default, update styles in documents that were created previously based on that template. They only affect new documents abased on that template. You can change this behavior for a document by choosing Tools → Templates and Add-Ins and selecting Automatically update document styles. Any changes to styles in the document's underlying template will now cascade to this document and update its styles.