Summary

Styles are an essential part of creating a consistently formatted and accessible document. In this chapter, we explained what styles are, the main types of styles, how themes affect styles, and how to create custom styles.

We examined different types of styles and learned how styles can help us apply consistent formatting throughout a document. Styles are especially useful when we're creating longer documents or sets of similar documents. That way, documents across an organization will have the same look and feel.

We learned that Word comes with many built-in styles that you can begin using right away. We also discussed the different types of styles (paragraph, character, and linked), how they can be applied, and in what circumstances they are useful.

Styles control more than just character formatting. Styles can be used to apply color and change fonts, text size, and spacing. Styles are also affected by Word themes. Theme changes can alter the appearance of styles...