Goodwill Community Foundation creating
opportunities for a better life where it
has a great feature called styles that
you can use to control the fonts colors
and formatting of your document you can
use this feature to get a more
professional look and try out different
looks of the click of a button so how
does it work start by selecting or just
placing your cursor next to a line of
text then go to the Styles group right
now I'm using the normal style but I can
hover over some of the other styles to
see a preview of what they look like for
the full list click the drop-down arrow
here
and since this is the title of my
document I really think title works the
best here
I'm just going to move to the next line
of text by pressing the down arrow on my
keyboard and for this line I'm going to
use subtitle
and last I'd like to choose a heading
let's go with heading one I think this
looks great
but believe it or not there's more than
one style set to choose from each style
set contains a unique combination of
titles headings and text that you can
change to and from instantly just go to
the design tab and click the more
drop-down arrow in the document
formatting group there are a variety of
formats to choose from some are more
formal and each one has a different look
and feel so try a few and see which one
works best for your document how about
this one
you know I really do like this but I
think the title is a bit too big to
modify a style all you have to do is
find it in the Styles group right click
then modify you can give it a new title
if you want but I'm just going to change
the font size
it's important to understand that when
you modify a style you're changing every
instance of that style in the document
this means you can use styles to change
several things at the same time for
example since the text here uses the
normal style we can easily change the
text size for all of it
without selecting each paragraph
if your document has a lot of text this
technique can really save you a lot of
time and effort you can also create a
brand-new style from scratch just click
the tiny arrow here then the new style
button at the bottom and enter a name
for your style you can then choose any
formatting you like I'm going to go with
a new font a bigger size bolding
and this blue color
quick okay
close this and now not only is their
style applied but it's in the list of
styles to choose from too
it's amazing how easy it is to change
the entire look and feel of your
document with just a few clicks
so try experimenting with styles to find
something you like or create your own
you