It is often necessary to highlight some parts of the text visually (for example, when listing). Simply highlighting a paragraph does not give the desired effect. In this case, it makes sense to use bullets or numbering. Markers combine items related to the same topic. Numbered lists contain items that follow each other. You can find examples of using numbered and bulleted lists in this book.

To create numbered and bulleted lists, you can use the corresponding buttons in the group Paragraph on the tab home on the tape. Buttons on the toolbar allow you to quickly number paragraphs or place bullets in front of them, as well as set additional formatting options.

To quickly create a list, do the following.

Bulleted list

You can use different types of bullets when creating bulleted lists. Click the down arrow next to the button Markers(Fig. 4.43), you can select one of the eight most used markers. You can also create your own marker type. To do this, select the command Define a new marker.

Rice. 4.43.

Dialog window Defining a new marker(Fig. 4.44), which will open after performing this action, allows you to set the marker parameters.

Rice. 4.44.

• Font- design of the marker as a text symbol.
• Symbol- design of the marker in the form of a symbol table sign.
• Drawing- design of the marker in the form of any picture available in Picture collections.
• Alignment- determination of the marker position.

In area Sample

Numbered list

When creating numbered lists, you can use different types of numbering. Click the down arrow next to the button Numbering(Fig. 4.45), you can choose one of the seven most commonly used numbering types. You can also create your own numbering type. To do this, select the command Define new number format.

Rice. 4.45.

Dialog window Defining a new number format(Fig. 4.46), which will open after performing this action, allows you to set the marker parameters.

Rice. 4.46.

• Number format- selection of text that will be located after the number:
  • numbering- type of numbering;
  • Font- registration of the number in the form of a text symbol.
• Alignment- determination of the number position.

In area Sample you can see how the list will look with the specified parameters.

Multi-level list

Microsoft Word also allows you to create multi-level lists containing up to 10 levels of different lists. Moreover, each level can have its own marker or number. Click the down arrow next to the button Multi-level list(Fig. 4.47), you can choose one of the seven most used types of multi-level lists. You can also create your own type of such list. To do this, select the command Define a new multi-level list.

Rice. 4.47.

After clicking this button, a dialog box opens Defining a new multi-level list(Fig. 4.48).

Rice. 4.48.

The parameters presented in the window are similar to the settings contained in the window Editing a numbered list, however, in this case you can select numbering settings separately for each level.

Create your own multi-level list style

If you often use multi-level lists with certain parameters, you can create your own style. You can set design parameters for a multi-level list in the dialog box Defining a new list style (

Hello, dear friends. Today I’ll tell you what styles are in Word, how you can use them to organize visual design, simplify document navigation, and prepare for automatic content creation. By taking a few minutes to read this article, in the future you will be able to develop your own unique design for a text document, automate its work, and simplify subsequent changes in design.

Before reading this post, it will be useful to study the article about, because styles are an integral part of the template.

What are styles in Word

Style in Microsoft Word is a way of writing and visualizing text. As I said earlier, this is an important component of the template. All styles are logically divided by purpose - document title, headings, subheadings, links, highlights and much more. Each style element creates its own formatting. Applying a corresponding template to each part of the text will help you format it in one or two clicks.

Styles can be divided into three types:

1. Character styles. Apply to one or more selected characters. Set the font type and size, style, color, etc.;
2. Paragraph styles. Set the design for sections of text. Include line spacing, indents, paragraphs, etc.;
3. Combined styles – combining the first two options

If you used to increase the font size and choose a more eye-catching color for your headings, today it is better to switch to using styles. This will speed up your work and avoid many repeated steps when changing the format of text of the same type. For example, you marked up 30 headings in a document, and then decided to slightly change their appearance. Instead of making edits to all 30 headings, you can edit one style, and the edits on the page will be made automatically.

How to set text style

The developers have provided several groups of styles, you can select one of them by going to the ribbon: . Expand the gallery to select the appropriate group.

Now you can mark up the document. Place the cursor in the text title and select from the ribbon: Home – Styles – Title. The Title style will be applied to the header.

Now place your cursor in the section heading. In the same gallery on the ribbon, select "Heading 1". The first level heading formatting is applied. If this section has subsections with their own names, apply the “Heading 2” style to them. In total, Word has nine levels of headings. Why are these levels needed? Firstly, to make the text easier to read. Secondly, to create the structure of the document.

Press Ctrl+F to open the Navigation menu. Go to the Headings tab and see all the headings you have marked up in a hierarchical view. By clicking on their names, you can quickly move to the desired section. This is especially useful in large documents with complex structures. In addition, you can make auto content.

Unfortunately, the feed gallery cannot accommodate all styles. To select from the full list, as well as open additional settings, click on the arrow icon in the lower right corner of the gallery.

The Styles menu will open with recommended options. By default, if you have "Heading 1" on your worksheet, "Heading 2" will appear in the list. Use "Heading 2", "Heading 3" will appear. In this way, Word tries to make efficient use of screen space.

To display all available styles in this window, click Options and select from the drop-down list: Display Styles – All. Here you can select the sort order. For example, by recommendation, alphabetically, etc.

By the way, in Microsoft Word (starting from version 2013), you can collapse and expand the contents of headings directly on the sheet to hide unnecessary text while reading from the screen. To do this, click on the triangle icon to the left of the title. It appears when you hover the mouse over its location.

How to add a style to the gallery

If you don't like having the Styles menu open on your screen, you can move the style options you want to a gallery on the ribbon. To do this, find the desired style in the menu, right-click on it and select “Add to style collection” in the context menu.

To remove unnecessary styles from the gallery, right-click on it and select “Remove from style collection.”

How to change the style

If you are not entirely satisfied with any of the predefined styles, you can change it. I will describe to you 3 ways to do this:

1. Right-click on the selected style in the gallery and click "Edit". The style settings window will open. Configure all the necessary parameters and click OK. Check the “Update automatically” checkbox for the changes to take effect immediately.
2. Click (or press the down arrow) on the style name in the Styles menu. Next, a window will open as in the previous paragraph, the sequence of actions is the same.
3. Manually format the text the way you want it to look and select it. After that, click on the desired style in the gallery or the “Styles” menu, select “Update style according to the selected fragment” from the context menu.

If you want to make your own set of styles from the generated styles, expand the gallery on the ribbon Design - Document Formatting and select " Save as new style set».

How to create your own style

To create your own style from scratch, expand the Style Gallery and select Create Style. The window for creating a new style will open. Give the new style a name and click the Edit button to select formats.

The same window can be opened by clicking the “Create Style” button in the “Styles” menu

Please note that in order for styles to automatically change to yours when switching style sets, they must have the same names. Be sure to take this into account when changing and creating new styles. In any case, I recommend sticking to the names provided by the developers.

Let's summarize. Styles are a special design method that allows you to customize the design once, and then apply it many times in different parts of the text. A comparison with CSS styles in website development is forced if you are familiar with them. Also, styles allow you to organize the structure of a document, making it easier to navigate through it. Based on this structure, the program can automatically build a table of contents.

I think each of you has appreciated the undeniable advantages that the use of styles provides. For me, this is an everyday tool, without which it’s like being without hands. However, sometimes it is necessary without resorting to customizing templates and styles. We will look at how this is done in the next article. See you soon!

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To format a document, you can use styles, which let you quickly and easily apply a set of formatting options to your entire document. If you want formatting options that aren't available from the built-in styles and themes available in Word, you can change existing styles, create new styles, and save those changes to your document and template. You can also add styles to the Quick Styles list for easy access.

Applying a style set

Select a location or text in your document, and then do one of the following:

On the tab home in Group styles select the desired style.

To apply a custom style or a set of Quick Styles, on the home in Group styles click the button style area, and then select the desired style from the list Apply style .

Changing an existing style

Adding a new custom style

You can create a new style and add it to the Quick Styles list.

Delete a custom style

You can remove a custom element from the Quick Styles gallery if you no longer need it.

On the tab home in Group styles Control-click and right-click the style you want to remove, then choose remove from Quick Styles gallery.

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Applying a style

Using Style in Word, you can quickly and easily format text. There are paragraph, character, table, and list styles.

Icon in the Style dialog box	Style type
	Paragraph styles control the appearance of text in a document at the paragraph level. When you apply a paragraph style to text, it applies to the entire paragraph. Paragraph styles are typically used for general formatting of large pieces of text, such as the body of a newsletter or flyer. A paragraph style can include all the formatting definitions that a character style contains. In addition, it determines all paragraph appearance parameters, such as text alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders. By default, the normal paragraph style is applied to all text in the blank document you create. Similarly, the list paragraph style is applied to items in a list (for example, when creating a bulleted list using the Bullets command).
	Character styles also control the appearance of text in a document, but at the character level. They usually specify the formatting of small pieces of text (for example, by highlighting one word in a paragraph). Character styles contain formatting options such as font, size, color, bold, italic, underline, border, and fill. They do not include paragraph-level formatting attributes such as line spacing, text alignment, indentation, and tabs. There are several built-in character styles, such as Emphasis, Light Emphasis, and Strong Emphasis. Each combines several formatting options, such as bold text, italics, and contrasting color, to create a consistent typographic appearance. For example, the Highlight style turns text into bold italic text with a contrasting color.
	Table styles define the appearance of tables. They specify attributes such as title bar text formatting, grid lines, and contrast colors for rows and columns. With table styles, complex formatting can be applied with one click.
	List styles define the appearance of lists. They specify attributes such as bullet style, numbering scheme, indentation, and caption text.

Changing the style

By changing a style, you can easily change the formatting of all text in the document to which it is applied. For example, if the Heading 1 style is applied to chapter headings in a document, you can simply change its definition to adjust the format of all such headings.

Creating a style

To create a style, you can configure all of its settings manually, or you can save time by using an existing style as a base.

Delete a style

In Word, you can delete any style you create, but you cannot delete all the built-in styles included with Word. When you delete a style, Word applies the normal style to all paragraphs that were formatted with the deleted style and removes the style definition you deleted from the list of styles.

Working with Express Styles

By customizing styles for paragraphs, headings, and other document elements, you can quickly apply a consistent set of Quick Styles. Quick Style Sets (such as Fine) are combinations of styles handpicked to create attractive, professional-looking documents. For example, such a set might contain styles for multiple levels of headings, body text, quote, and title. Although the Quick Style set most likely already contains all the components you need, you can add a new style to it or modify existing ones. Once you've added or edited styles, you can save them as a custom Quick Style set under a new name.

Style is a named description of the paragraph or character format of text. Instead of manually formatting each paragraph, you can define a style and customize the settings you want. You can then apply this style to any block of text; as a result, the style parameters will be transferred to a specific fragment of the document.

There are two types of styles:

* paragraph - sets the design of an entire paragraph;
* symbolic - sets the font, style and design of a fragment of paragraph text.

Any text character always has two styles: paragraph and character. By default, Word gives text a paragraph style. Ordinary and symbolic style Primary paragraph font. All the text formatting techniques discussed above in this lesson did not affect its style. Now let's create two new styles.

1. Create a new document. Select a team Format > Styles and Formatting. A corresponding window will open on the right side of the screen in the task area, shown in Fig. 6.14.

Rice. 6.14. Styles window in Word

2. The section lists the set of available styles. Place your mouse pointer on one of them. A tooltip appears with a brief description of the specified style. Click on the selected style. In chapter Formatting selected text The name of this style appears and a drop-down list containing the available operations appears.

Note The task pane in Microsoft Office XP applications makes creating, editing, and applying styles much easier.

3. Click the button Create a style, a dialog box will open Creating a style, shown in Fig. 6.15.

4. Dropdown Style leave the option Paragraph, because now we need a style to style the paragraph.

Rice. 6.15. Create a new style in Word

5. In the field Name enter the title Beautiful Paragraph.

6. Listed Based on style select item Ordinary. As a result, all parameters of the new style will correspond to the same style parameters Ordinary, which we will then change a little.

7. Click on the button Format Paragraph. A standard paragraph formatting window will open (see Fig. 6.4 above), with the help of which in this situation you can set the font parameters of the custom style.

8. Select alignment mode Width, enter 1 cm for the left and right paragraph indents, 2 cm for the first line indent, and 6 points for the space before the paragraph. Then click OK twice. The new style will appear in the list Select formatting to apply dialog boxes Styles and Formatting.

9. Click the button again Create a style.

10. Dropdown Style dialog box that appears Creating a style select item sign to define a new character style.

11. In the field Name enter the name Large text.

12. On the list Based on style select item Primary paragraph font.

13. Click on the button Format and in the menu that opens, select Font.

Note Button menu Format gives access to any paragraph or font options. Explore the rest of the commands on this menu yourself.

14. In the font formatting dialog box that opens (see Fig. 6.11), select the font ArialCyr, size 20 points, style Bold italic.

15. Double click on the button OK, and then click the button Close. The document now contains descriptions of two new styles that can be used to format paragraphs and text fragments.

16. Enter several paragraphs of text and highlight the first three.

17. In the drop down list Style toolbars Formatting select the new style Beautiful Paragraph. The three selected paragraphs will be styled according to the paragraph style you just created.

18. Highlight a few words in the first paragraph and select from the same list Style item Large text. The highlighted words will change to match the new character style.

19. Repeat this operation, highlighting the words of the second, third and fourth paragraphs (Fig. 6.16).

Rice. 6.16. Design using styles in Word

It would seem that the same operations can be done using regular formatting commands, but styling text with styles offers several advantages.

* The style is capable of storing complex formatting options that can be quickly assigned to any paragraph or fragment.
* A style can be placed in a template, and all documents created based on this template will inherit it.
* By changing the style, you will instantly change the appearance of all document fragments designed in accordance with this style.
* By modifying a style in a template, you will immediately change the appearance of all text fragments formatted with that style in all documents based on the adjusted template. (To achieve this, for each of the selected documents in the dialog box Templates and add-ons, which is opened with the command Tools > Templates and Add-ons, the checkbox must be checked Automatically update styles).

20. To feel the full power of templates in action, select the command again Format > Styles and Formatting, in the list Select formatting to apply select the Beautiful paragraph item and select the command from the drop-down list Change.

21. In the dialog window Changing the style click on the button Format, and then select the item from the drop-down list Paragraph.

22. In the dialog window Paragraph increase the left and right margins to 2 cm. Click OK twice, and then click Close.

Please note that the indents of the first three paragraphs, which were assigned the Beautiful Paragraph style, have increased. In a similar way, you can quickly adjust, for example, the font size of fragments highlighted in the Large text style. Think about how much time it would take to make such a design change using standard tools if you had to modify several paragraphs scattered across a multi-page document.

By preparing custom styles for certain text elements (such as figure captions), you can customize the format of all captions with a simple adjustment to the appropriate style. Using styles, you can perform any text formatting. In the absence of sufficient experience, this approach will require additional time, but by learning how to change the design of documents by manipulating styles, you can save many hours.

16.1 Theoretical information

AutoFormat and Styles are designed to automatically change the appearance of documents and their paragraphs. The fact is that when you create a new document, by default it is based on the template Ordinary.

In this case, all text is entered in the style Normal, which sets the basic formatting parameters: font - Times New Roman, font size - 12 points, left alignment, single line spacing.

A document in which all text is set to the Normal style is expressionless. To change the appearance of such a document, you need to format it or assign different styles to its paragraphs. As you know, the entire text of a Word document consists of paragraphs. A paragraph includes: body paragraph, headings, table of contents, lists (numbered and bulleted), etc.

After entering text into a document, you can use the "Format/AutoFormat..." command to externally format the entire document.

When you automatically format a document, each paragraph is assigned one of Word's styles. Assigning standard Word styles to paragraphs in a document allows you to quickly change the appearance of the created document by applying styles from the style library.

Style is a set of formatting options that you apply to document text to quickly change its appearance. Styles allow you to simultaneously apply an entire group of formatting attributes to document text. There are three types of styles: character style, paragraph style, table style.

So, after the document is automatically formatted, you can use the style library and assign the required style to the document and its paragraphs.

You can perform the following operations on paragraph and character styles:

• apply other styles (style overlay - one style overlays another and replaces it) to paragraphs or characters;
• change (make changes to an existing style) styles;
• create new styles;
• copy styles to template.

16.1.2 Applying other styles

To apply a different style to a paragraph or character, click the paragraph (or word for a character style) and do the following:

1. first way:
   • in the task area in the “Select formatting to apply” window, select the style that is needed;
2. Method two: To quickly apply a style, select a paragraph style or character style from the Style drop-down list on the Formatting toolbar.
3. Method Three: To quickly replace or copy character styles and paragraph styles, use the Format Painter button located on the formatting toolbar.

16.1.3 Changing paragraph and character styles

If you make changes to an existing style, the other styles based on it also change.

To change styles you need to do the following:

• in the Format menu, select the Styles and Formatting... command;
• place the cursor in the text whose style you want to change;
• in the task pane, in the Formatting selected text field, the style of the text under the cursor will be displayed;
• move the mouse pointer to the displayed text style in the Formatting selected text field, an icon will appear on the right to expand the list of commands, click on it. A list of commands will open, click on the Edit command, which will open the Change Style dialog box.
• In the dialog box, you can change the name of the style (provided that it is not a built-in style) by entering it in the Name field. If you try to rename an inline style, Word will add the name you entered as an alias. Each style must have a unique name, and the case of letters is taken into account: for example, “Student” and “student” are different styles. For styles of any type, you can set one or more aliases by entering them after the style name in the Name field and separating them with a comma.
• You can change the Style - basis by selecting the name of the style from the Based on style drop-down list. If you select (none) for a paragraph style in this list, it will not be based on any one style, and will contain the full set of paragraph formatting and character characteristics. (The Normal style cannot be based on another style.) If you select Primary Paragraph Font for the character style, the paragraph font style will be based on that style.
• To change the font, click the Format button (paragraph format attributes: font; paragraph; tab; border; language; frame; numbering), and then select the desired attribute. After changing the attribute, click OK in the Font window to return to the Edit Style window;
• in the dialog box you can change the style of the next paragraph that follows the changed paragraph;
• To apply the changed style to new documents based on the same template, select the "Add to template" checkbox in the Change Style window
• After making changes, click on the OK button.

16.1.4 Creating a new style

To create styles you need to do the following:

• in the Format menu, select the Styles and Formatting... command;
• in the task area, in the Format selected text field, to the right of the displayed style, click on the icon to expand the list of commands. A list of commands will open, click on the Create Style... command, which will open the Create Style dialog box;
• from the Style drop-down list, select the style you want to create a Paragraph or Character;
• in the Name field, enter a name for the style;
• To base a new style on an existing style, select the desired base style from the Based on Style drop-down list. The new style is initially generated based on the selected text.
• To make the new style part of the template on which the current template is based, select the "Add to Template" checkbox. If the checkbox is not selected, the new style will only be used in the current document.
• When defining a new style, the editor assigns a style for the next paragraph that matches the one being created. To assign a different style to the next paragraph, select the desired value from the Next paragraph style list;
• If you check the Update automatically checkbox, then when you make manual changes to the format of the paragraph to which this style is assigned, all changes will be made to the style description;
• Initially, the editor assigns all the format attributes of the selected text fragment to the new style. To change these attributes, click the Format button and select formatting options;
• After making all the necessary changes to the style, click OK.

16.1.5 Copying styles to a template (Templates and Add-ons command in the Tools menu)

To copy styles, do the following:

• select the Templates and Add-ons command in the Tools menu;
• Click the Organizer button, and then select the tab that contains the items you want to copy.

To complete this laboratory work, you must become familiar with the formatting of a text document and styles in Word, outlined in the lecture materials and discussed in.

16.2 Purpose of work

Become familiar with styles, learn how to view them, apply them, create and edit styles, and format documents using styles.

16.3 Problem statement

To complete the lab, do the following:

16.4.2.2 Launch Microsoft Word using the Microsoft Office Word 2003 shortcut located on your desktop.

Launch Microsoft Word by clicking on the shortcut Microsoft Office Word 2003. As a result, the application window will open Microsoft Word.

In the application window, open the text referat_EI. doc.

To view styles, place the cursor in the text whose style you want to define.

The style will be displayed:

• in the Style drop-down list on the Formatting toolbar;
• in the task pane in the "Format selected text" box.

16.4.4 Clear the abstract text format and perform automatic formatting of the abstract text

16.4.4.1 Format clearing.

To clear the abstract text format, you need to do the following:

• highlight the entire text of the abstract;
• select the Styles and Formatting command in the format menu, the Styles and Formatting panel will open in the task area;
• In the task pane, in the Select Formatting to Apply window, select Clear Format.

16.4.4.2 Automatic text formatting.

To perform automatic formatting of document text, you must perform the following steps:

• select the AutoFormat command in the Format menu, the AutoFormat dialog box will open;
• to select changes that should be made automatically, in the dialog box, click the Options button, clear or check the appropriate boxes, and then click OK;
• specify the document type to apply the most appropriate formatting: Regular document;
• To format a document automatically, select the option Entire document at once;
• To perform auto-formatting, click OK.

16.4.5 Apply different styles to abstract headings

Apply different styles to Heading 1, Heading 2, and one of the paragraphs using all the methods outlined in section 16.1.2.

16.4.6 Change the styles of headings and one of the body paragraphs

To change the styles of headings and one of the body paragraphs, use the technologies outlined in section 16.1.3.

16.4.7 Create a new paragraph style and use it to format paragraphs in the body of the abstract

Using the methods described in Section 16.1.4, create a new paragraph style and format the body paragraphs of your abstract with it.

16.4.8 Update the table of contents and format the title page

To update the table of contents, right-click on it and select Update Field from the context menu. The Update Table of Contents dialog box will open, in which select the Update Entire command.
Format the title page to its original form and save the file under a new name.

16.4.9 Shutdown

Tell your teacher about your completed work. After allowing shutdown, close the application program Microsoft Word, after which you can remove the floppy disk from the drive. Then you can start taking tests on the completed work.