Style.BaseStyle Property

Word Developer Reference

Returns or sets an existing style on which you can base the formatting of another style. Read/write Variant.

Syntax

expression.BaseStyle

expression   A variable that represents a Style object.

Remarks

To set the BaseStyle property, specify either the local name of the base style, an integer or a wdBuiltinStyle constant, or an object that represents the base style. For a list of the wdBuiltinStyle constants, see the Style property for the object that you want to set.

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.

Visual Basic for Applications
  Dim docNew As Document
Dim styleNew As Style

Set docNew = Documents.Add Set styleNew = docNew.Styles.Add("NewHeading1") With styleNew .BaseStyle = docNew.Styles(wdStyleHeading1) .ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = 72 End With

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

Visual Basic for Applications
  Dim styleBase As Style

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

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