Style Property

Applies To

Find object, HeadingStyle object, LineFormat object, Paragraph object, ParagraphFormat object, Paragraphs collection object, Range object, Replacement object, Selection object.

Description

Returns or sets the style for the specified object. To set this property, specify either the local name of the style, an integer or a WdBuiltinStyle constant (see "Remarks"), or an object that represents the style. Read/write Variant.

Remarks

When you return the style for a range that includes more than one style, only the first character or paragraph style is returned.

The Style property can be one of the following WdBuiltinStyle constants:

wdStyleBlockQuotation	wdStyleBodyText
wdStyleBodyText2	wdStyleBodyText3
wdStyleBodyTextFirstIndent	wdStyleBodyTextFirstIndent2
wdStyleBodyTextIndent	wdStyleBodyTextIndent2
wdStyleBodyTextIndent3	wdStyleCaption
wdStyleClosing	wdStyleCommentReference

wdStyleCommentText	wdStyleDate
wdStyleDefaultParagraphFont	wdStyleEmphasis
wdStyleEndnoteReference	wdStyleEndnoteText
wdStyleEnvelopeAddress	wdStyleEnvelopeReturn
wdStyleFooter	wdStyleFootnoteReference
wdStyleFootnoteText	wdStyleHeader
wdStyleHeading1	wdStyleHeading2
wdStyleHeading3	wdStyleHeading4
wdStyleHeading5	wdStyleHeading6
wdStyleHeading7	wdStyleHeading8
wdStyleHeading9	wdStyleHyperlink
wdStyleHyperlinkFollowed	wdStyleIndex1
wdStyleIndex2	wdStyleIndex3
wdStyleIndex4	wdStyleIndex5
wdStyleIndex6	wdStyleIndex7
wdStyleIndex8	wdStyleIndex9
wdStyleIndexHeading	wdStyleLineNumber
wdStyleList	wdStyleList2
wdStyleList3	wdStyleList4
wdStyleList5	wdStyleListBullet
wdStyleListBullet2	wdStyleListBullet3
wdStyleListBullet4	wdStyleListBullet5
wdStyleListContinue	wdStyleListContinue2
wdStyleListContinue3	wdStyleListContinue4
wdStyleListContinue5	wdStyleListNumber
wdStyleListNumber2	wdStyleListNumber3
wdStyleListNumber4	wdStyleListNumber5
wdStyleMacroText	wdStyleMessageHeader
wdStyleNavPane	wdStyleNormal
wdStyleNormalIndent	wdStyleNoteHeading
wdStylePageNumber	wdStylePlainText
wdStyleSalutation	wdStyleSignature
wdStyleStrong	wdStyleSubtitle
wdStyleTableOfAuthorities	wdStyleTableOfFigures
wdStyleTitle	wdStyleTOAHeading
wdStyleTOC1	wdStyleTOC2

wdStyleTOC3	wdStyleTOC4
wdStyleTOC5	wdStyleTOC6
wdStyleTOC7	wdStyleTOC8
wdStyleTOC9

See Also

AutoFormat method, Styles property.

Example

This example displays the style for each paragraph in the active document.

For Each para in ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
    MsgBox para.Style
Next para

This example displays the style for each character in the selection. Each element of the Characters collection is a Range object.

For each c in Selection.Characters
    MsgBox c.Style
Next c

This example sets alternating styles of Heading 3 and Normal for all the paragraphs in the active document.

For i = 1 To ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.Count
    If i Mod 2 = 0 Then
        ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(i).Style = wdStyleNormal
    Else: ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(i).Style = wdStyleHeading3
    End If
Next i

This example finds all instances of the Heading 1 style in the active document and replaces them with the Heading 2 style.

With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Style = wdStyleHeading1
    .Replacement.ClearFormatting
    .Replacement.Style = wdStyleHeading2
    .Execute FindText:="", ReplaceWith:="", _
        Replace:=wdReplaceAll, Format:=True
End With