Which Style Set is Used?

[Diane]

In Word 2007, the Change Styles button allows you to change the Style Set,
the Colors, and the Font. When you click Colors or Font, the current choice
is highlighted, so it's easy to tell what has been selected and used in the
document. However, when the Style Set choice is clicked, none of the styles
has a checkmark next to it or is highlighted. Does anyone know how to tell
what style has been selected -- short of memorizing all of them or using Live
Preview for each one? Thanks!

 

[Aeneas]

I do not know any way to tell what Quick Style set has been applied after
you apply a different Quick Style set, close a document and reopen it. I have
unzipped several Word 2007 document files and cannot find any reference to
the Quick Style set in any of the XML files.

Using Live Preview and comparing the results is the only (admittedly,
unsatisfactory) way to provide reasonable grounds for a guess as to which
Quick Style set is applied. The style definitions are apparently copied into
the document from the .dotx Quick Style set file when a different Quick Style
set is applied.

If you are really asking which style is applied, just open the Styles task
pane (Home tab, Styles group, Styles dialog box launcher (arrow at bottom
right of group). The style applied to the paragraph containing the insertion
point will be highlighted in the Styles task pane.

As a point of interest:
There is one active document theme (Office by default) and one active Quick
Style Set (Word 2007 by default) for each document.

Each document theme (there are 23 built-in) consists of a set of theme
colors, a set of theme fonts and a set of theme effects. You can mix and
match sets of theme colors, theme fonts and theme effects from different
document themes. They can be applied from the Page Layout tab, in the Themes
group. Live Preview is available.

Each Quick Style Set (there are 11 built-in) consists of 25
aesthetically-coordinated paragraph styles, linked styles and character
styles. Each of the 25 styles has the same name in each set. A different
Quick Style Set can be applied from the Home tab, in the Styles group, by
clicking Change Styles, pointing to Style Sets and selecting the desired
Quick Style Set.