Goodwill Community Foundation creating
opportunities for a better life word 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 on different looks at the
click of a button 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
normal 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 arrow here and since this is the
title of my document I really think
title looks the best
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 this one is just the default
each style set contains a unique
combination of titles headings and text
that you can change instantly just go to
the design tab and click the more
drop-down arrow in the document
formatting group there is a variety of
formats to choose from here some are
more formal
but 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
I really do like this but I think the
titles a little too big it's getting
covered by the picture on the right to
modify a style all you have to do is
find it in the Styles group right click
and then select modify you can give it a
new title if you want but I'm just going
to change the font size you can also
create a new style from scratch how
about a new heading just click the tiny
arrow here and then the new style button
at the bottom and now you can enter a
name for your style you can choose any
formatting you like I'm going to go with
a new font size
bold
and this blue color click OK to close
this and not only is it applied to your
document it's in the list of styles too
it's amazing how easy it is to change
the entire look and feel of your
document just by using Styles try
experimenting find something you like or
create your own