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STYLES IN A DOCUMENT
Styles-: Style give your document a consistent, professional
look. using styles in Microsoft Word is the best way to create a
well-formatted document. A style is a set of text formatting
characteristic, such as font size, color, and alignment. You use
styles to format your document.
You can use styles to quickly apply a set of formatting
choices consistently throughout your document. If you want
formatting choices that are not available from the built-in
styles and themes available in Word, you can modify an
existing style and customize it to suit your needs. You can
change the formatting (such as font size, color, and text
indentation) in styles applied to titles, headings, paragraphs,
lists, and so on. You can also select formatted text in your
document to create a new style in the Styles gallery.
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A style in Word is nothing more than a clutch of text and
paragraph formats. You give the style a name, and then you
use it to format your text. Or you can format your text first and
then make a style to match. You can find styles located on the
Home tab and Design Tab, in the Styles group.
Five different types of styles, each
customized to format a different document
element in Word:
Paragraph: The paragraph style contains both paragraph
and text formatting attributes: indents, tabs, font, text size
— you name it. It’s the most common type of style.
Character: The character style formats only characters,
not paragraphs.
Page styles: affect page formatting (page size, margin, and the like).
When applied these page
Styles affect the look and formatting of a page.
Frame styles: affect frames and graphics.
