BaseStyle Property

Applies To

Style object.

Description

Returns or sets an existing style on which you can base the formatting of another style. To set this property, specify either the local name of the base style, an integer or a WdBuiltinStyle constant, or an object that represents the base style. Read/write Variant.

For a list of the WdBuiltinStyle constants, see the Style property.

See Also

NextParagraphStyle property.

Example

This example creates a new document and then adds a new paragraph style named "myHeading." It assigns Heading 1 as the base style for the new style . A left indent of 1 inch (72 points) is then specified for the new style.

Set myDoc = Documents.Add
Set myHeading = myDoc.Styles.Add("myHeading")
With myHeading
    .BaseStyle = myDoc.Styles(wdStyleHeading1)
    .ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = 72
End With

This example returns the base style that's used for the Body Text paragraph style.

base = ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleBodyText).BaseStyle
MsgBox base