Are Word’s “styles” similar to HTML’s “cascading style sheets”?
Web designers will recognize that using styles in Word is like applying “markup” in HTML (i.e., adding tags to indicate structure). Likewise, changing the look of a Word document by modifying style rules is like changing the appearance of a web page by modifying its cascading style sheet. However, while structure and appearance are kept separate in HTML, the two functions are combined in Word’s styles.