Word 2013 For Dummies

Chapter 15

Style Formatting

In This Chapter

Understanding styles

Finding where Word hides styles

Applying styles

Removing styles

Creating your own styles

Modifying styles

Assigning a style shortcut key

Formatting can certainly be a job. There’s so much to format! In character and paragraph formatting alone, you’ll find text sizes, colors, styles, margins, tabs, indents — lots of stuff and lots of time to spend doing it. So much time that lots of people don’t bother much with formatting because they fear having to do it over and over and over. That fear is unfounded, however, because Word features something called styles, which make the process of formatting your text super cinchy.

The Big Style Overview

Styles are the virtual stew of formatting commands, all kept in one package. Apply ...