Jul 04, 2016

Styles in Microsoft Word is a great way to format document text because it allows you to apply easily over selections and to ensure a consistent font theme.

Styles is simply a makeup of font, size, styles and indents that allows us to apply over text without manually formatting selections. Styles can be found in the Home Ribbon where formatting tools are found and installed in the app is a set of Styles in a gallery. While such installed styles like the Heading 1, Heading 2 etc. can be applied over headings, there are also paragraph styles to instantly format paragraph selections. By clicking onto the dialogue box in the bottom right corner of the Styles group, you can then access more styles including List and Table Styles to further your formatting but once again to ensure an overall consistent theme.

Over this series of Blogs, I will be taking us through on how to maximise the use of Styles in Word to enhance company templates. Stay tuned in this series.

By selecting the third drop down arrow from the right of the gallery, this will display Word’s Styles more fully.

To locate more Styles including List and Table Styles that can be found by selecting the dialogue box launcher in the bottom right corner of the Styles group.

Ensuring the Show Preview check box is checked will allow you to preview how each Style would appear once applied.

By using Styles you can ensure a consistent font theme over the document

You can find Part 2 of my "Working with Styles" series here.