Hour 9. Working with Styles

Hour 9. Working with Styles

A style is a collection of formatting options to which you assign a name . For example, you could create a style called MyTitle that contains all the formatting ”font, font size, alignment, and so on ”that you normally apply to the titles of your reports . When you apply a style to text, the text takes on all the formatting that the style contains. As you'll see, using styles can greatly speed up the formatting process. If you apply a lot of formatting in your documents, you will probably come away from this hour a true believer in the value of styles.

The highlights of this hour include

• Applying styles to your text

• Creating your own styles

• Modifying styles

• Chaining styles together

• Viewing styles onscreen

• Restricting the formatting allowed in your document to a certain set of styles