So far, most of what we've seen is a standard document layout where every paragraph uses all the width of a page. Layouts are the way our paragraphs are going to be arranged in our documents. Once it's created, we can even add it to the Quick Formats list. This way we can create our new styles, from the type of text you are styling to the font formatting, spacing. To do this we just need to click on the Style pane button at the top right corner and find the New Styles option: If we are not content with the styles that Microsoft Word offers for our documents, we can always create our own. Or if you've customized the content table style for that document already, you can now apply it to any new content tables that you add without having to do it all over again. For example, adding a content table with the default styles will set up everything automatically without us having to tweak the content table itself.
We can see that there are multiple styling options that not only help us customize how our document looks, but can also make it easier to add extra things to it. Just select the whole text and applying the 'No Spacing' option in the Style Pane. Ok, what about the rest of the paragraph text? Let's say that we don't want to have spacing between paragraphs. We can now see how our title is formatted. Go ahead and select the title and find the option you like best in the Style Pane. For example, if we select the whole text of our document and then select the header style, Microsoft Word is going to put the entire text in header style, like it were all one big title. Keep in mind that there are several options for the different parts of a document, or you can change the whole document, but you have to select the part that what you want to work with.
To start formatting our paragraphs, we select the part of the text whose style we want to change. Is the small box on the top right of the Home tab: Paragraph styling gives us a more efficient way to write and create documents, even if we don't want to change much in the styling.įirst, we need to familiarize ourselves with the Style pane. For purposes of this lesson, we are going to be working with Microsoft Word 2016 keep in mind that if you're using a different version, what you see might differ from this content.
In this lesson, we're going to explore how to apply style and format to our Microsoft Word documents.