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Working With Styles
This chapter explains how to apply paragraph,
character, and list styles to quickly and consistently
change the appearance of text. It also describes
how to modify existing styles, or create your own.
As you write and format your document, you may want to create different looks for
different types of text and paragraphs and use them consistently throughout your
document. For example, you may want to have all top-level headings use the same
font, color, and line spacing, or you may want all callout text or photo captions to
have the same look. Applying consistent styles is also important if you’re creating a
table of contents (to learn more about creating a table of contents, see “Generating a
Table of Contents” on page 102).
The simplest way to make sure that text styles are consistently used is to create styles,
which you can then apply to any text as you work. Templates include a variety of
styles that are suited to the type of document you are working in. The style names,
such as “Heading,” “Body,” or “Caption,” suggest where the style should be used. If you
are using a template, you can apply the preset styles where you need them.