This is the most comprehensive guide on YT on HOW to make custom Microsoft Word Styles, and more importantly, WHY and WHEN to use them. Full show notes are given below.
Word styles are integral to many things you do in Microsoft Word, particularly when you are managing large documents.
The two big advantages of using styles are (1) Consistency and (2) Easy Maintenance.
In this video I demonstrate how to create a new style from scratch, apply styles to multiple elements, modify a style and how to use the built in heading styles to navigate and manage your document and build a Table of Contents.
I also provide an extensive walkthrough of all the options and settings in the Style dialog.
I finish by showing you how to use the styles you have created in other documents.
TIME CODES (click the link to go directly to that spot in the video)
(0:00) An overview of what is covered in this video
(0:25) The prebuilt Normal Style and the Heading Styles
(1:11) Applying and switching styles
(1:24) How to create (or define) a new style
(2:37) What happens when you are using a style then press Enter?
(2:58) How to apply your new style
(3:30) How to modify (or redefine) a style
(4:24) A walkthrough of the options and settings in the Styles dialog
(4:33) Style type
(4:46) Style based on
(5:17) Style for following paragraph
(5:35) The middle section with the most common formatting options
(6:19) The Format button with 9 categories
(6:33) Additional (advanced) Font settings
(7:36) Additional Paragraph settings
(8:07) Tabs
(8:19) Border (paragraph borders and shading)
(8:58) Language
(9:16) Frame (superseded by text boxes)
(9:27) Numbering
(9:43) Shortcut keys
(9:52) Text effects
(10:06) Add to the Styles Gallery
(10:16) Automatically Update
(10:46) 'Only in this Document' vs 'New documents based on this template'
(11:31) How and why to use and customise the prebuilt Heading Styles (an example using Heading 1 and Heading 2)
(13:00) Benefit 1: Managing a large document
(13:49) Benefit 2: The Navigation Pane
(14:33) Benefit 3: Build a Table of Contents (really easily)
(17:02) How to update a Table of Contents
(18:12) How to use your styles in other documents
(19:27) Quick summary
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