Microsoft® Office Word 2003 Step by Step

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 ...