Microsoft Word - Styles

Using Microsoft Word to fomat a document is quite easy until you start dealing with different fonts and paragraph formats. It gets even more frustrating when dealing with large documents.

When I started using Microsoft Word I was perplexed about why when deleting one line it could radically change the look of the paragraph, font and general layout. It turns out that I needed some Style!

"Styles" in Microsoft Word control just about everything you want to do with a document. Put bluntly, if you dont uses styles your not using Microsoft Word correctly.

Following this video will provide you with the basic understanding of style funamentals. With this knowledge, I guarantee you will start enjoying using Word rather than feeling paranoid and thinking "what is word going to do to wreck you document this time!".

I strongly urge you to watch this video as the techniques discussed here have a far ranging impact on modern day computing. Styles are used in word processors and are the fundamental building blocks of web design!

Its amazing that lots of people dont know about them or just ignore them. Every document I write regardless of size uses "styles" whether I like it or not. So its best to get to grips with them otherwise you will be a slave to style rather than being a style guru!

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Category:

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Tags:

• Microsoft
• Word
• Style
• Styles
• Formatting
• Paragraphs

[JinggaBlitz]

You really are capable of making great, tuitive and easy to digest tutorial mate..,

just one request thoug..,

please make HD version :D

[PCTeachME]

@JinggaBlitz Hi! This was one of my earliest videos and before I had nailed down the presentation style I was after. All my videos are now being created in HD. Thanks for your comments and appreciate your feedback.

[iso9001checklist1]

Thanks so much for these great videos - very easy to understand, good job!

[PCTeachME]

@iso9001checklist1 Your most welcome, thanks for you comments.

[mrHardc0re]

Thanks a lot for taking your time to create this video. You have just made my life a lot easier!

[PCTeachME]

@mrHardc0re Hi, glad I could be of assistance

[Qriator]

To the bullet point query, remember that autoformatted bullets do not work with styles. The subpoints will collapse to be like the main style if restyled later if the auto format was used. Perhaps someone else has a different solve, but my method is to have a style for each level of indentation. It takes the usual tab method away but allows me clear control of every line. Mind you, I do not take notes on a laptop- i use pen and paper. I find old school better because i can use shorthand and dra

[stocker05]

Hi, I have a question. I'm a uni student and when writing notes with microsoft word, I use bullet points with a lot of indents. Often, I'll be working with a document, and when I go back through what I've written again, I'll find that the bullet indents for parts of my document are completely gone - the bullets are all in their default position. Everything this happens, I have to go through the document fixing everything.

Do you know why this is happening? and how I can fix it? thank you.

[PawelWysocki]

I'm so glad this has bean dealt with by someone who really understands this

[PCTeachME]

@gman10M Hi,

Hmm, one thought I have is if you changed the default template? I.e have you customised Word with your own page layout, font etc..

If you have this may have changed the template to something else and the VBA function of "rand" may not be present in it. As the initial templates VBA functions are password protected(by Microsoft) that may be why. Other than that I am at a loss.

Still although it's a nifty feature it was just a time saving device for the purpose of this video.