If you're working on a document that uses the same text formats repeatedly, you can save time and ensure consistency by using style sheets. A style sheet is essentially a "macro" for formatting text. InDesign lets you create character-level style sheets and paragraph-level style sheets. Character style sheets let you apply several character attributes such as font, size , leading, kerning, and tracking to highlighted text at once. Similarly, you can use paragraph style sheets to apply several paragraph formats alignment, indents, drop caps, space before or after, and so on simultaneously to selected paragraphs. After you apply a style sheet to text, you can still manually modify the text by highlighting it and overriding the style sheet's formats. If you're importing a text file from Microsoft Word, you can import any applied style sheets along with the text.