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Lesson 29: Applying and Modifying Styles

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Introduction

A style is a predefined combination of font way, color, and size that can exist applied to any text in your document. Styles tin assist your documents achieve a more than professional look and experience. You can also use styles to quickly alter several things in your document at the aforementioned time.

Optional: Download our exercise document.

Watch the video below to learn more about using styles in Discussion.

To utilize a style:

Select the text you want to format, or place your cursor at the showtime of the line.
In the Styles group on the Dwelling house tab, click the More drop-downward arrow.
Select the desired style from the drop-down card.
The text will appear in the selected style.

To apply a style prepare:

Mode sets include a combination of title, heading, and paragraph styles. Style sets let you to format all elements in your document at in one case instead of modifying each element separately.

From the Blueprint tab, click the More drib-downwardly arrow in the Document Formatting group.
Choose the desired style set from the drop-downward menu.
The selected style set will exist practical to your entire certificate.

To modify a mode:

In the Styles group on the Habitation tab, right-click the fashion yous desire to change and select Modify from the drop-downwards bill of fare.
A dialog box volition appear. Make the desired formatting changes, such every bit font mode, size, and color. If y'all want, you lot can also change the name of the style. Click OK to save your changes.
The style volition exist modified.

When you modify a mode, you're changing every instance of that mode in the document. In the example below, nosotros've modified the Normal style to use a larger font size. Because both paragraphs use the Normal style, they've been updated automatically to use the new size.

modifying the normal style

To create a new style:

Click the arrow in the bottom-right corner of the Styles grouping.
The Styles task pane will appear. Select the New Style button at the bottom of the task pane.
A dialog box will announced. Enter a name for the mode, choose the desired text formatting, then click OK.
The new fashion will be applied to the currently selected text. It will also appear in the Styles group.

You tin can as well use styles to create a table of contents for your certificate. To larn how, review our article on How to Create a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word.

Challenge!

Open up our practice certificate. If you already downloaded our practise certificate, be sure to download a fresh copy by clicking the link again.
On folio 1, select the first line of text Shelbyfield Animal Rescue and change the style to Title.
Select the second line that says August Volunteer Update and change the style to Heading 1.
Select the tertiary line that says A Message From Your Managing director and modify the style to Heading 2.
In the Design tab, modify the s tyle set up to Casual.
Modify the Normal mode so the font is Cambria and the font size is 14 pt.
When you're finished, the first folio of your document should look like this:
Optional: Modify the Heading 3 style whatever way you lot want. You can change the font, font size, colour, and more than. This heading appears throughout the document, so endeavor to cull formatting that complements the body text.