This stuff is largely unchanged since Word for DOS, and that was too long ago to discuss.
Most other word processors have similar capabilities, so don’t despair if you’re not a Word user.
Okay, you work as a painter.
You have all the gear.
Brushes and paint cans.
Unfortunately you don’t work for yourself though.
Your boss is a nice enough guy, but there’s one thing he does that’s really annoying.
He changes his mind at the last minute.
You’ve put in some time, and the result is great.
So you gotta sand, prepare, prime and paint all the blue posts.
That isexactlywhat styles do, in Word.
The simplest way to do this is to use the predefined styles.
Let’s put some text in a document to start with.
Just key in it up.
On the ribbon, on theHometab, there are a number of styles listed.
The ones you could see depends on your screen resolution.
The text you have in there now is already using styles.
It’s all set using theNormalstyle.
So the first thing we want to do is to change the headings so they look different.
Select each of the headings, and click theHeading 1option on the ribbon.
And you will end up with something like this.
Don’t worry if yours doesn’t look quite the same.
If anyone has messed with the defaults for the styles you could have some differences.
Okay, now here’s that same situation as with the fence, right?
So to make them red, we just redefine what aHeading 1is, and they all change.
How easy is that?
you’ve got the option to also see a preview of what the result will look like.
And remember that as the body text is also a style, you’re able to change that.
The main text, for whatever reason, needs to be indented, blue, and italic.
Right click theNormalbox:
Easy, right?
But there’s a trap.
Most of the default styles are based on theNormalstyle.
By changing theNormalstyle, which you just did, you change things in other styles as well.
So that’s why the red headings are now indented along with the body text, and also italic.
you’re able to fix it a few ways.
Note that anything you already messed with (such as the red) isn’t touched.
We want to change the headings some more anyway, so let’s go and deal with that.
Instead of clickingOK, press theFormatbutton.
you’re free to see an example of what your design efforts will do to the headings.
Again, think about long documents, rather than something short.
