A style is simply a combination of text and/or paragraph formatting that can be applied quickly and easily to text. As when formatting text manually, a text style is applied to selected text. Likewise a paragraph style is applied to the paragraph in which the insert point currently resides, or multiple selected paragraphs, as explained in Formatting Paragraphs.
Creating / Modifying Styles
1. From within
Letter Writer, select Format
> Style. The Styles
window appears.
The following information relates to creating a new style. The
procedure for modifying an existing style is similar.
2. Click
New to
create a new style. The New
Style window appears.
3. Name the style.
4. Base the style on another. By doing so, the current style becomes the child of the selected parent style. Changes made to the parent style affect all child styles based upon it. For example, you could create a number of Heading styles with each style having a different font size, but because they are all based on a parent style whose font is Arial, each child Heading style will also use the Arial font. Once you have created and saved a style, you cannot modify which style it is based on.
5. Select
a style for the following paragraph. In other words, consider
that whilst you're creating a new letter, if you were to press
the Enter key to create a new paragraph, which style would you
like to have applied automatically to
the next paragraph? By default the style applied to consecutive
paragraphs is the same as the current, as it is assumed that (for
the most part) you will be typing multiple paragraphs using the
same style.
However, selecting a different style for a following paragraph
can come in handy. For example, you could create a style called
Heading (which could have 14-point Bold formatting) and a style
called Bodytext (10-point, normal
formatting). Then you can modify the Heading style such that the
Bodytext style follows it. In this
way when you use the Heading style to create a heading in your
document, upon pressing the Enter key, the Bodytext style is selected
automatically for you, and you can immediately begin typing the
body of your message using the Bodytext style.
6. Select a Style Type. Styles can be applied to either text or paragraphs.
7. Select formatting for the style, using the following options;
o Font,
o Paragraph,
o Tabs,
o Numbering (Bullets and Numbering)
8. Click OK to confirm your settings.
Applying Styles
1. Select the text or paragraph you wish to apply the style to.
2. Select
the style you wish to apply from the Style
drop-down menu on the Letter Writer Formatting toolbar, which
sits to the left of the Font drop-down menu. The following image
indicates the currently-selected Style is called 'Normal'.
