Using styles to make your documents more professional

 

In the beginning, to print letters there was type, consisting of wooden blocks with carved letters that were inked and pressed to paper. When the typewriter appeared the modern office was born and with it the typing pool. Type still all looked the same as the typewriter had only one set of hammers that printed by pressing inked ribbon to paper. Innovations like IBM's golf-ball and daisy-wheel made typed letters and documents more interesting, as you could change the ball/wheel with different styles of type. It was the advent of word processing that really put style into the hands of office workers. Now we all get the benefit of total flexibility as we can choose colour, typefaces and layouts with programs/apps like Word.

With word processors like Word we are able to define certain font combinations to use for titles, headings, and body text. These can be labelled as styles.

Styles are so useful. Our second session highlights how to use them, and how to customize them easily.

Follow this link for the official words of wisdom from Microsoft on Styles