From the course: Word: Formatting and Styles in Depth (365/2019)

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Style naming conventions: The basics

Style naming conventions: The basics

From the course: Word: Formatting and Styles in Depth (365/2019)

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Style naming conventions: The basics

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- [Instructor] Our next task is to create our own custom styles. Part of creating styles is providing them with names. This is not a trivial choice for a couple of reasons. First, the names that we give our styles appear visually in the gallery. If I create a style and name it my first style, that might be accurate, but that's not very helpful to me or to other users. You don't want cute names or even clever names. You want solid descriptive names that allow your users to figure out how a style should be used. I see your users as if they're different people, but some of the documents I have found most confusing were documents I created 10 or 20 years ago when my best practices weren't yet developed. So here are some basic rules to help. First, if you intend a style will be used as a title, then put the word title somewhere in its name. You can't name a style title because that style name already exists in every document.…

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