CHAPTER 3

WORD STYLES

PRESENTED BY: JANETH LEE GONZALES

GERALD GARCIA
ANGELO FAMA
CHARL LEXBER ESPANOL
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Styles can save a ridiculous amount of time that you would otherwise formatting and wrestling with text.

You can’t create a table of contents or use the Navigation pane unless each heading in your documents has
been assigned a heading style. Nor can you take advantage of Outline view and the commands for moving
text around in that view. You can’t cross-reference heading or number the headings in a document.

IF YOU WANT TO BE STYLISH, YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT STYLES…

STYLES

 A style is a collection of formatting commands assembled under one name.

 Styles save time and make documents look more professional. Headings assigned the same styles.

STYLES AND TEMPLATES

 Every document comes with built-in styles that it inherits from the template with which it was created. You
can create your own styles to supplement styles from the template.

 A simple document created with the Blank Document Template – a document that you create by pressing
Ctrl+N – has only a few styles, but a document that was created with a sophisticated template comes with
many styles.
 The Oriel Report template, comes with styles for formatting titles, subtitles, headings and quotations.

STYLES
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TYPES OF STYLES

Word offers three styles types:

 Paragraph styles – Determine the formatting of entire paragraphs. A paragraph styles can include these settings:
font, paragraph, tab, border, language, bullets, numbering and text effects. Paragraph styles are marked with the
paragraph symbol (¶).

 Character styles – Apply to text, not to paragraphs. You select a text before you apply a character style for text
that is hard to layout and for foreign-language text. A character style can include these settings: font, border,
language, and text effects.

 Linked (paragraph and character) – apply paragraph formats as well as text formats throughout a paragraph.
These styles are marked with the paragraph symbol (¶) as well as the letter a.
APPLYING STYLES TO TEXT AND PARAGRAPHS

Applying a style
The first step in applying a style is to select the part of your document that need a style change:

 A paragraph or paragraphs – Because paragraph styles apply to all the text in a paragraph , you only need
click in a paragraph before applying a style to make a style apply throughout the paragraph. To apply a
style to several paragraphs, select all or part them.
 Text – To apply a character style, select the letters whose formatting you want to change.

Next, apply the style with one of these techniques:

 Styles Gallery – On the Home tab, choose a style in the Styles Gallery. (Depending on the size of your
screen, you may have to click the Styles button first). The formatted letters above each style name in the
gallery show you what your style choice will do to paragraph or text. You can “live-preview” styles on the
Styles Gallery by moving the pointer over style names.
 Styles pane – On the Home tab, click the styles group button to open the Styles pane, and select a style. Click
the Show Preview check box at the bottom of the Styles pane to see formatted style names in the pane and get
an idea of what the different styles are. You can drug the Styles pane to different locations on your screen, it
remains onscreen after you leave the Home tab.

 Apply Styles task pane – Choose a style on the Apply Styles task pane. To display this task pane, go to the
Home tab, open the Styles Gallery, and choose Apply Styles (look for this option at the bottom of the gallery).
You can drag the Apply Styles task pane to a corner of the screen. As does the Styles pane, the Apply Styles
task pane remains onscreen after you leave the Home tab.
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APPLY STYLES TASK

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- To strip a paragraph or text of its style and give it the generic Normal style, select it and choose Clear
Formatting in the Styles Gallery or Clear All at the top of the Styles pane.