Microsoft® Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition

Changing the Look of Characters and Paragraphs with Styles

As you change the appearance of the text in your documents, you might find that you have created a look, or style, of your own. In Word, a style is a collection of character and paragraph formatting that can be saved. Then instead of applying each format individually, you can apply all of them at once by using a style.

Styles come in two varieties:

• You use character styles to format selected characters. You can apply character styles to a single letter, a word, a paragraph, or the entire document. This type of style consists of collections of attributes. For example, a character style might specify that the selected text should be 18-point, bold, underlined, and red.

• You use paragraph styles ...