Previewing Templates Using the Style Gallery

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One convenient aspect of using templates with defined styles is that you aren't forever committed to using particular formatting. You can change a document's formatting at any time by adjusting the properties of the styles defined in the template. If you're considering modifying a document's styles, you should visit Word's Style Gallery. The Style Gallery enables you to preview how an entire document will look if styles are applied from another template. If you like what you see, you can copy the styles from within the Style Gallery directly into your document.

To preview a document with other template styles and to apply new styles to a document, follow these steps:

1. Open the document you want to format, and then choose Format, Theme.

2. In the Theme dialog box, click Style Gallery. The Style Gallery appears, as shown in Figure 16-5.

   
   Figure 16-5: The Style Gallery enables you to preview and apply text formatting styles from other templates to the current document.

3. Select a template in the Template list, and choose an option in the Preview section, as follows:

   • Document-Displays how your document will appear if it's formatted with the selected template.

   • Example-Displays an example of a sample file formatted with the template, if an example is available.

   • Style Samples-Displays the format for each style in the template in list format.

4. To apply the selected styles to the current document, click OK.

Keep in mind that when you apply styles using the Style Gallery, you aren't changing the template that's attached to the current document. Instead, the Style Gallery lets you view and apply styles from other templates to the contents of the current document. To attach a different template to a document, follow the instructions in the next part of the chapter. To modify a template, refer to "Creating a New Template Based on an Existing Template".

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