To Replace Styles in a Document

Through file migration or copy and paste, you may have a file that has an unwanted style, such as a dimension style. Use Replace Style to replace the old styles with a new style to make all styles uniform.

Replace Style substitutes all references of a style with another style of the same type, including object references to styles and style references to substyles. and style and substyle references. Only local styles are replaced.

1. Open the drawing file that contains styles you want to change.
2. On the ribbon, click Manage tab Styles and Standards panel Styles Editor.
3. In the Style and Standard Editor dialog box, navigate to the style you want to replace, and then right-click and select Replace Style.
   Note: If appropriate, you can select multiple styles to replace with a new style. Hold down the CTRL key and select multiple local styles.
4. In the Replace Style dialog box, the style to replace is identified. In the With box, click the arrow and select the replacement style from the list, and then click OK.

   If desired, select the Purge Replaced Style check box to purge the old style automatically.

5. Click Done to quit.