What are Paragraph Styles and why do I need to use them?
In Word, a paragraph style is a formatting definition for paragraphs in a document. That is, you can completely change the appearance and function of a paragraph by simply modifying its style definition. The style definition includes font properties, paragraph alignment, indentation, and spacing, numbering, and tab stops as well as other less-used features. Some of the advantages of placing all of the document’s paragraphs in styles are the following: · Documents will be uniformly formatted · Like paragraphs can be modified very quickly through style re-definition rather than modifying the document paragraph-by-paragraph · Numbering will be correct for all outlines in the document · Standardization of documents for multiple users in an organization can be easily accomplished All training organizations agree that proper definition and use of styles can offer Word users tremendous time savings. In fact, once a set of styles have been properly constructed, it will be much faster to format
