Replacing style of paragraphs with another style automatically

[Shailesh]

I need to replace all occurence of texts in "Normal" style with "Body text"
style in a rather long document. Is there a way to do this automatically
without having to do each replacement manually using the "Format Painter"? Or
without changing the formatting of "Normal" style?

 

[Jezebel]

Use Find and Replace. Display the dialog and click the More button. Select
the Find What box. Click Format > Style and select Normal; otherwise leave
the box empty. Similarly with Replace with: set the format to Body Text.
Then click Replace all.

 

[Andy]

Is there a reason why you couldn't just right click on Normal in the
Style Pane and click "select all n instances", and then click Body
Text?

 

[Dan Corban]

This method only works on Word 2002 and 2003. The OP didn't mention what
version they were using.

This is a good example of how the task pane saves quite a bit of work.