Styles

 

  • Styles apply to an entire paragraph.
  • Styles contain character and paragraph formatting: font, color, paragraph alignment, margins, line spacing, and borders.

Styles Control button
  1. Click on the style drop-down arrow
  2. Click on a style

The style is applied to the current paragraph or all selected paragraphs.
 
 

Style Update Button
  1. Select and format a paragraph.
  2. Click the Update Style button.

The style now contains the new format. Other paragraphs with that style change their appearance.

 

When you format text after applying a style, you are overriding the style's formatting. To remove overrides and format text exactly as a style dictates:

  1. Select the text or paragraphs you want to be formatted exactly like the style.
  2. Click the style drop-down arrow and choose Clear Formatting.

The overriding formatting is removed and the text appears exactly as the style dictates.

 

 

Style Entry Dialog box
  1. Format a paragraph to look just right.
  2. Click the name of the style in the style field on the toolbar. The entire name will be highlighted.
  3. Type in a new name for your style.

The new style is created and contains all the formatting of the current paragraph.

 

  1. Click on the style drop-down arrow and select 'New, Copy, Del...'. 
  2. Select the desired style and click one of the buttons:
    1. Update:  Style adopts formatting of current selected paragraph
    2. Rename
    3. Copy: Copies style to all open documents.
    4. Delete

In this dialog you may also create a style.