The text editor Microsoft Office Word has a large set of customizable changes for various parts of the document. Among them are paragraphs, fonts and others. In the latest version of this program, users have the opportunity to create their own list style in Word. You can also change the appearance of the text as a whole.
How to perform this procedure will be discussed in the text.
What are styles?
By this, it is customary to understand the way of writing letters with which the text in the document is visualized. It is a very important part of the template. In the Word text editor, styles are divided into logical categories. Among them:
- name of the current document;
- headers
- subheadings;
- discharge;
- various links and many other components.
For each of these details, you can create an absolutely unique style, which is saved as a template. Later, after making just a couple of clicks, you will get the opportunity to give the necessary part of the document the look that you yourself created earlier.
What can be customized
As mentioned earlier, the user has access to a wide range of features regarding editing the appearance of the document. And creating styles in Word is only a small part of all the changes. Next, it is worth considering what types of settings are, and what they include.
Document Character Style
This parameter can be applied to one or several characters. This category includes settings for the following items:
- font size and type;
- way of drawing;
- changing the displayed color and other options.
Paragraphs
In this category, the formatting of various sections of the document, or rather, printed text, is performed. User can modify:
- the distance between the lines of text;
- indentation length in various directions;
- paragraph level and much more.
Combined
This option makes it possible to edit several ready-made options when editing. Thus, the user can make an absolutely unique style of the previously mentioned components.
Summing up this section, it can be noted that the use of styles in Word allows you to simplify your life, avoid multiple steps of the same type and speed up the process, eliminating the need to first increase the font size and then select an unusual color scheme for it.
As an example, you can indicate this situation: your document has ten headings and five subheadings. Using pre-prepared styles, you can simply set for each type of component the option that you think is necessary. Moreover, it will be applied immediately to all positions of the same category. And you do not have to configure each header individually.
We now turn to the consideration of instructions on how to create a style in Word, then change it, add it to the gallery and apply it. Let's start in order.
Create your own version
In this section, we will consider the main method of constructing your own style. All examples will be considered in Microsoft Office Word 2016. This is done as follows:
- Launch the editor and open the gallery of styles. It is located in the right part of the window on the top panel, in the "Home" tab.
- At the very bottom of the list, activate the function to create a new style in Word. A small message will pop up in which you need to specify the name of the new option and click the "Change" button.
- A new style settings window will now appear. Here you can convert all the criteria as you like. Changes will be displayed in the example below the parameters.
Attention! Make sure that the names of the style you created in Word coincide in all sections of the settings. Otherwise, automatic change during switching will be impossible. It is recommended to adhere to those names that were previously proposed by the developers.
Now let's figure out how to add style to a set of others.
Adding to the collection
Once you have created your unique style in Word and made sure that his name is spelled the same in all places where it is necessary, you can begin the process of adding it to the general gallery for the other options created by the developers. Although it is worth noting that this is a very small matter, implemented in two clicks:
- Find in the menu the style that you created earlier, right-click on it with the computer mouse.
- In the context menu that opens, select the line called "Add to collection of styles".
The same thing must be done if you want to remove it from the shared set.
But there is also another option for adding your option to the rest. When making settings, pay attention to the bottom of the window. There will be several points. Among them will be a line with the inscription "Add to collection of styles". Put a marker next to it.
As soon as you finish the process of editing the parameters and confirm your actions, the element you created will be automatically registered with the other components of the same type.
The process of applying to text
The creators of the editor provided for several different groups of styles of document elements. To select the one that you need, open the tab called "Design" and find the format string of the object. Now open the gallery and select the desired group.
Next, proceed to work with the installation. It runs like this:
- Place the cursor on the heading in the text.
- Go to the "Home" tab, then to the styles section and activate the "Title" category. It will be applied to the element types where the cursor is located.
- Rearrange it to the section title. In the same place as the name, select the group of the first heading. Corresponding changes will be made.
- Repeat the operation if there are subheadings in the text. Only now you are interested in "Heading 2".
Do not forget to include the function to update the text style in the "Word" in accordance with the selected fragment.
How to make changes?
The following are several ways to change the style in Word, if you have such a need, or do not want to create another one from scratch. Here is a list of them:
- Open the gallery with all the options. Select the one you need and right-click on it. In the list, activate the line "Change". The settings window will pop up. Make all the changes that you consider necessary, check the box in the automatic update line and confirm your actions by clicking the "OK" button.
- In the styles menu, click on the small arrow under the option name. The settings window will pop up again. Repeat the steps above and save any changes.
- Select the piece of text you want to change. Change all the parameters that you consider necessary. Select the edited piece and click on the desired style in the gallery.
- In the context menu, activate the update function in accordance with the selected fragment.