Word: Formatting and Styles in Depth (365/2019)

Learn how to use styles in the Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) version of Word to help save time creating consistent and well-designed documents.

Introduction

• Format Word documents quickly and efficiently
• What you need for this course

1. Get Started with Styles

• Themes: The basics
• Styles: The basics
• Apply and modify styles
• Create a new style
• Types of styles
• View styles and formatting

2. Apply Styles

• Three ways to apply styles
• Apply table styles
• Apply styles to lists
• Use styles with find and replace

3. Customize and Use Styles

• Style naming conventions: The basics
• Create a paragraph style by example
• Create a character style
• Inheriting properties from another style
• Create styles from existing formatting
• Modify styles automatically

4. Manage Styles and Style Sets

• Save a custom style set
• Copy styles to another document or template
• Manage styles and style sets

5. Advanced Style Techniques

• Generate a table of contents
• Restrict formatting to styles

Conclusion

• Next steps