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Create and manage styles

Create and manage styles

From the course: Cert Prep: Word Expert - Microsoft Office Specialist for Office 2019

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Create and manage styles

- Sometimes the built in styles just don't quite do what we need them to. And luckily, we have additional styles that we can work with and of course, we can modify any paragraph or character style to meet our needs. After watching this video, you'll know how to modify a paragraph and character style, how to modify an entire style, and how to copy styles from your current document into the Normal template. Let's take a look at our styles document. And first, I want to talk about the difference between character styles and paragraph styles. Now character styles have formatting characteristics that are applied to text and that would be a font, font size, color, whether we bold, italicize, or underline. Do we apply borders to the text? Do we have any shading for the text? So those are your character styles. Now paragraph styles will include everything that the character style contains but it also controls the paragraph's…

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