Word Styles Walkthrough
Welcome to Hey Ivan, a channel where you can ask tech questions. If you’ve been trying to wrap your mind around styles and how best to use them in your Word documents, then this video is for you. In it, I’ll walk you through how to apply styles in a Word document, from beginning to end. Grab your own document and follow along.
CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:45 Get Ready for the Walkthrough
00:01:03 Which Version of Word?
00:01:39 Add Random Text to Your Walkthrough Document
00:02:22 A Few Settings to Prepare for Working with Styles
00:02:35 Show Non-Printing Characters
00:03:07 Turn on Style Area
00:03:46 Change to Draft View
00:04:10 Direct Formatting
00:04:36 When Styles Are Important
00:05:47 Begin Walkthrough
00:05:54 Clear Formatting
00:06:06 Apply Heading Styles
00:06:32 Modify the Heading Style
00:07:11 Add Spacing After to Heading Style
00:08:17 Why I Avoid Using Normal Everywhere
00:08:32 Change the Normal Font
00:09:08 Apply Body Text Style
00:09:46 Control Which Styles Appear in the Task Pane
00:10:10 Reapply Style
00:10:15 Another Way to Modify a Style
00:10:34 Add a First Line Indent to Body Text
00:10:45 Add Space After to Body Text
00:11:08 Why Removing Empty Paragraphs Helps
00:11:24 Apply a Style to Multiple Paragraphs
00:11:54 Another Formatting Strategy to Consider
00:12:17 Another Way to Modify a Style
00:12:27 Modify the Heading 1 Style to be All Caps
00:12:41 Modify the Heading 1 Style to be Small Caps
00:12:59 You Can Use Automatic Numbering with Heading Styles
00:13:10 Add a Table of Contents
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