Styles for Publishing

A style allows you to specify the format of a parts of your document and to easily change the formatting and appearance. This may not seem like much when you only have a one paragraph document, but if you have multiple pages, or multiple documents, styles are critical. In Yet Another "Use Styles" Verbal Beating!, the author emphasizes the use of styles and gives some reasoning.

What does this mean for you? It means you need to use styles! Your body text should have a defined style that is properly formatted and named (how about " My Body Text"!), and your headings should all have a heading style applied, which will allow you to generate a table of contents automatically. Hint: you can apply Heading 1 style in Microsoft Word by hitting the key combination <ctrl><alt>1.

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