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Microsoft Word Help - Styles Page 2

What's on this page... Apply a Style Creating a New Style with the Style Menu Creating a New Style with the New Style Dialog Box Modify a Style Delete a Style

Creating A New Style with the Style Menu

To create a new style using the Style button, follow these steps:

1.	Click a paragraph whose formatting you would like to turn into a style and apply to other paragraphs in your document. Remember, a heading is also a paragraph as far as Word is concerned, so if you're creating a style for a heading, click the heading.
2.	Click inside the Style drop-down list from the Formatting toolbar, and type a name for the style. Choose a meaningful name that you will remember.
Create a new style by typing it into the Styles list box.
3.	Press the Enter key.
	You'll notice that the new style is available for using via the Styles drop-down list.

Creating A New Style with the New Style Dialog Box

To create a new style using the New Style dialog box, follow these steps:

1.	Choose Format ► Styles and Formatting from the menu bar to open the Styles and Formatting task pane to the right of the document window.
2.	Click the New Style button, to open the New Style dialog box.
3.	Fill in the New Style dialog box.
	As you do so, keep your eyes on the Preview box, Microsoft Word help you with the preview to see what your new style will look like:
	► NAME Enter a name for the style.  The name you enter will appear on the Style menu.
	► STYLE TYPE Click the down arrow and choose Character if you're creating a style for characters rather than paragraphs.
	► STYLE BASED ON If your new style is similar to one that is already on the menu, click here and choose the style to get a head start on creating the new one. Be warned, however, that if you or someone else changes the Base On style, your new style will inherit those changes and be altered as well.
	► STYLE FOR FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH Choose a style from the drop-down list if the style you're creating is always followed by an existing style. For example, a new style called Chapter Title might always be followed by a style called Chapter Intro Paragraph.
	► ADD TO TEMPLATE Adds the style to the documents template so that other documents based on the template you are using can also make use of the new style.
	► AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE With this box checked, all paragraphs in the document that were assigned the style are altered each time you change a single paragraph that was assigned the style.
	► FORMAT This is the important one. Click the button and make a formatting choice. Word takes you to dialog boxes so that you can create the style.
4.	Click OK to close the New Style dialog box.
	Your new style is now listed in the Styles and Formatting task pane, ready for you to use.

Remember that a style you create are only available in the document you've created it in. Styles aren't copied to new documents. You'll notice that when you start a New Document, that the Styles list is back to default. However !! In the New Style dialog box, check mark "Add to Template" to make it available to other New Documents.

Microsoft Word XP