>First, thank you very much for your help.
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>>Styles are stored in templates and in documents. Changing the style in a template doesn't affect documents created with that template unless you actively tell the document to update or have linked the document to the template up front.
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>>So, the answer to your first question is no and to the second is yes.
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>This is something I don't understand yet. I started a new Word document. Then I clicked on Formats -> Styles and Formatting. I see the window Styles and Formatting on the right. I highlight certain text and click on various styles. Am I using styles in document or in a template? (sorry for such a newbie question).

Every document in Word is based on a template. If you don't specify otherwise, it's based on the template Normal.DOT.

When you edit styles in a document, you're editing only the document's styles. To edit the template's styles, you have to open the template.

This is just like the difference between editing a class and editing an object on a form in VFP. However, there's one big difference. Editing a template doesn't necessarily modify the documents based on that template; you have to act to bring those changes in.

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>I know I should find a good article and read about it the difference of styles in document and template.

I think you'll find something useful here: http://word.mvps.org/

Tamar