Microsoft Word Secrets: The Why and How of Getting Word to Do What You Want

© Flavio Morgado 2017

Flavio Morgado, Microsoft Word Secrets, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3078-7_5

5. Quick Document Formatting with Styles

Flavio Morgado¹ 

(1)Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

After all this talk about typography, paragraph and text formatting in Chapters 2 and 3, you are probably thinking that text formatting is a very laborious and complicated task, very prone to errors due to the difficulty of equally implementing the same formatting in similar paragraphs scattered across the pages of long text documents.

Fortunately, this is not true! You can attribute many different formatting options to a style, name it, and then apply it to the same paragraph type to easily standardize the text format. By using different styles in a single document ...