SECTION 3
Lesson 3.1: Using Styles

   

 

 

If you have a lot of styles, or if you use styles frequently, you may want to display your styles as a task pane instead of a list. You can enable this task pane by clicking the two A’s () next to the style list on the formatting toolbar. It’s circled in blue in the sample below:

 

 

Let’s take a look at the different parts of this pane.

 

1: Task Pane

Like a typical task pane, you can click the down arrow (▼) in the title bar to change the task pane being displayed. You can also use the X to close the task pane.

2: Style Preview

This box will show you how the selected style will look.

3: Select All

Click this button to select all instances of this style.

4: New Style

Click this button to create a new style. (We’ll cover this in detail in a moment.)

5: Style List

This is the list of styles. You can select existing text and click a style to apply it; or you can click a style to turn it on, type your text, and then click the style again to turn it off.

6: Show Menu

You can choose to display available formatting, formatting in use, available styles, all styles, or a custom view.

 

Now that you know how to view your styles, let’s look at customizing them.