Another one of the (few) nice things about Word's UI is the ability to set the style of something using user-assignable shortcuts. It works like this:
- select anything in a paragraph
- use shortcut for "set para style" (in word, this is cmd-shift-s)
- type full style name or shortcut
- hit the return key
"shortcut"? ... well, Word allows style names to have the format "name1,name2,name3..." where the "namen" things are synonyms. Typically "name1" is the full name, and "name2" is the shortcut. So, for instance, in the usual Word workflow (such as it is), the base paragraph style is "normal,n", and you can set the style of the current paragraph to "normal" by typing shift-cmd-s,n,return ...
There are a number of shortcuts that are "standard", such as "h1" for header level 1 (including the "autonumber"), "h2" for header level 2, etc.
Sure was nice ... didn't have to remember non-intuitive numeric codes ... easy to set document standards