Apply, create and customize styles in Documents

A style is a collection of formatting instructions. You use styles to format the paragraphs in your document. You can apply styles from the Styles Gallery, customize existing ones or create your own from scratch. 

Apply styles

1. Select the text you want to format.

2. On the Home tab, select a style from the Styles Gallery, or click the down-pointing arrow, click More styles. 

If you place your cursor in a paragraph, the style is applied to the whole paragraph. If you select specific text, only the selected text is formatted.

Create styles

1. On the Home tab, click the down-pointing arrow, then New style.

2. Name your custom style, click Edit style.

3. Adjust the settings, tick Add to Styles Gallery to reuse the style at a later time. 

4. Click OK. 

Customize styles

1. Select an existing style in the Styles Gallery, click the down-pointing arrow.

2. Select Edit style.

3. Adjust the settings, tick Add to Styles Gallery to reuse the style.

4. Click OK.