Check AutoComplete style names box to easily find a style when you type sytleвЂ™s name initials in the Style Name box.

Click this icon to open the Styles pane.

Click Modify button to modify a style, the Modify Style dialog box will displayed.

Reapply button applies the same style again on the selection and removes the direct formatting changes.

Select the style from the Style Name drop-down list.

You also can display this dialog box by pressing Ctrl+Shift+S keyboard buttons. Removes all formatting from the selected text and returning the formats to the Normal style. Use this command to quickly create a style based on the formatting of the selected text. The expanded gallery also shows three command buttons: Expanded Styles Gallery Scroll through the list of styles using the up and down scroll buttons at the right side of the gallery to find the desired style in the Style gallery, or click the More drop-down arrow to expand the gallery to see all recommended styles (see point 3 on the above figure). Apply the heading and title styles to the sample text For example, you can apply the Heading 1 style to headings at the top level, Heading 2 style to headings at the second level, and so on in your document. To apply a style, click the Home tab, on the Style gallery, choose the style you want to apply to the text. Note: The hidden heading styles (Heading 3, Heading 4, and so on) are displayed on the Style gallery when you apply the previous style, for example, when you apply the Heading 2 style to a paragraph the hidden Heading 3 style appears on the Style gallery. Use the following keyboard shortcuts for heading styles: To apply this style to a paragraph, first position the insertion point in the paragraph and click No Spacing in the Styles gallery.Д«y default, Style gallery displays two styles for headings: Heading 1 for the top-level headings and Heading 2 for second-level headings. No Spacing style formats line spacing as single and does not insert any additional space between lines when you press the enter key.

Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+N.

Click the Clear All Formatting button in the Font group on the Home tab or click Clear Formatting option on the expanded Styles gallery, or.

First position the insertion point in the paragraph and click Normal in the Styles gallery,.

To apply Normal style to a paragraph that has a different style, use one of the following methods: Also, if you do not specify a style for the text you type, Word applies the Normal style to the text. Normal style is WordвЂ™s default style, every new document has a blank paragraph formatted with the Normal style unless you apply another style. It is the most used paragraph style which uses an 11-point Calibri font, l.08 line-spacing, and 8pt spacing after the paragraph. LetвЂ™s discuss the most used styles in the Style gallery: Each style has a meaningful name that helps you to understand where it should apply in the document. The Style gallery, on the Home tab in the Styles group, shows some recommended styles. Microsoft Word has many built-in styles, available on the Home tab in the Styles group, that you can use to format text.

When you apply a style to text, that text is formatted with all the formats defined in the style (such as font size, line space, etc.). Using styles you can easily apply single or multiple formats at once to text.

It is in this way that styles can make formatting your document quicker. To solve this problem, create a new style and assign it to each instance of the company name, just modify the style whenever you need to change the format and all company name instances would immediately display the new formatting. Later you want to remove the bold formatting and apply the italic formatting instead, in this case, you have to manually find and reformat each instance of the company name. For example, youвЂ™ve applied bold formatting to the company name in the whole document. Direct formatting has some disadvantages, the big disadvantage is you have to repeatedly apply the same formatting commands to a particular recurring text. In previous tutorials, Character Formatting and Paragraph Formatting, youвЂ™ve learned about direct formatting.

In this tutorial weвЂ™ll discuss the following topics:

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