You’ve written your paper for class; it has all the necessary ingredients and you’re ready to make it
visually stunning. You know what font and spacing you want for your body text; you know just how to
make your headings stand out. If your next step is highlighting a heading and changing its style, by
making it bold or increasing the size, there’s an easier way.
Often students feel frustrated with the time-consuming task of defining a heading’s style and replicating
the format for subsequent headings by highlighting the heading and clicking the font, size, etc. again
and again. And, it doesn’t have to be that difficult. Microsoft Word contains a style feature that
allows you to easily apply consistent styles for your paper’s body text, headings, block quotes, and
other sections.
This tutorial's primary goal is to familiarize you with the process of defining and applying styles in Microsoft Word 2003 for Windows. Proper use of style sheets can be an effective way to format your Word documents, helping them make the transition pictured below.
In this tutorial you will learn how to: