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It is an extremely rare instance that you will use the style "Title" or "Subtitle" found in the Styles Gallery, Pane, or Pulldown. If you have questions, please reach out to accessibility@swarthmore.edu.

Change the text

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to or from a heading or normal text

  1. On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
  2. Select the text you want to change.
  3. Click Format and then Paragraph styles.
  4. Click a text style:
    • Normal text
    • Heading 1-6

  5. Click Apply ‘text style.'

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  1. On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
  2. Select text with the style you want to useAdd some text and style it the way you want using the options found in the top toolbar
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  3. Select that text.
  4. Click Format and then Paragraph styles and then Choose either Normal text or Heading 1-6 and then Update ‘Heading' to match.
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  5. All of the text in your document with the same of that text type, such as "Heading 4" or "Normal text," will be updated to match your initial selection.

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  1. new style.

Set and change a default style

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  • Set a default style: Click Format and then Paragraph styles and then Options and then Save as my default styles.
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  • Apply a default style: Click Format and then Paragraph styles and then Options and then Use my default styles.
  • Restore original to the Google style: Click Format and then Paragraph styles and then Options and then Reset styles.