

Templates are a great way to save time and create consistent Office 2010 documents. Templates are much more efficient and kinder to others if they're based on stylesĪ template is a Microsoft Office document that’s been designed with pre-existing themes, styles, and layouts, which has placeholder information instead of real content. You can lock down styles in a document to make sure that others don’t apply direct formatting and change your document creating a huge mess.ĥ. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you find extra formatting distracting, you can display your entire outline as plain text by clicking Show Formatting on the Outlining toolbar.

So if you want to change formatting across your document, you might want to do so in another view, such as print layout view, once your outline is complete. While you can manually change the formatting of text in your outline, veering away from the built-in styles that Word offers can result in some outline entries not being displayed correctly. In this way, your outline levels (Level 1, Level 2, Body Text, and so on) are directly tied to built-in heading styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, Normal, and so on). As you continue to build your outline by adding subordinate and body levels, Word in turn continues to apply the appropriate built-in style to each heading and body text entry. When you enter your first top-level outline entry, Word automatically formats it with a built-in style, Heading 1. Instead of using direct formatting, use styles to format your document so you can quickly and easily apply a set of formatting choices consistently throughout your document.įor more information see Style basics in Word Styles cascade and so when you make one change to a document you have made them all Under Style Name, click the style that you want.Ģ. If the style that you want does not appear in the Quick Style gallery, press CTRL+SHIFT+S to open the Apply Styles task pane. If you don't see the style that you want, click the arrow to expand the Quick Style gallery. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click the style that you want.įor example, if you selected text that you want to style as a main heading, click the style called Heading 1 in the Quick Style gallery. Select the text that you want to appear in the table of contents. Mark entries by using built-in heading styles Or you can assign the table of contents levels to individual text entries. You can also create a table of contents that is based on the custom styles that you have applied. The easiest way to create a table of contents is to use the built-in heading styles. Styles application means easy Table of Contents generation Here are the top 5 reasons to use Word Styles:ġ.

(Those are examples exact formatting characteristics depend on Word's default settings and those you might have chosen for yourself.)

For example, applying the Heading 1 style might make text bold, Arial, and 16 point, and applying the Heading 2 style makes text bold, italic, Arial, and 14 point. Less Resolutionīuilt-in styles are combinations of formatting characteristics that you can apply to text to quickly change its appearance.
