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All styles.

1 Select the text you want to format.

2 Display the Formatting Palette.

Note: See Chapter 3 for information on how to

display the Formatting Palette.

3 Open the Styles panel.

Apply a Style

You can save time and effort when formatting

your Word documents by taking advantage of

Word’s predefined styles. A style is a collection of

formatting options, such as fonts, colors, borders,

shading, and alignment. When you apply a style to

some text, Word applies all of the style’s

formatting at once.

Word offers dozens of predefined styles, the look of which depends

on the document theme (see the section “Apply a Document Theme”).

You can modify the predefined styles and create your own styles.

Apply a

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Can I create my own

style?

If none of Word’s

predefined styles is

exactly right for your

needs, you can create a

new style from scratch.

Follow Steps 2 and 3 to

display the Styles panel,

and then click New Style to display the New Style

dialog. In the Name text box, type a name for the

new style, and use the Formatting controls to edit

the style’s text formatting. You can also click the

Format

and then click a format category, such

as Paragraph or Border. Click OK.

Can I modify an existing

style?

Yes. You can modify any

aspect of Word’s

predefined styles to suit

your needs. Follow Steps

2 to 4 to display all the

styles. Hover the

over the

style you want to work with, click

the

that appears, and then click Modify Style.

In the Modify Style dialog, use the Formatting

controls to edit the style’s text formatting. You can

also click the Format

and then click a format

category, such as Paragraph or Border. Click OK.

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Word displays all the available

styles.

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The icons on the right tell you the

type of style:

applies text formatting.

applies paragraph formatting.

applies table formatting.

Note: To see the formatting in the style, hover the

over the style.

5 Click the style you want to apply.

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Word applies the style to the

selected text.