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• Changing your style in the new Word

  6 Sep 2012

  Today's post comes from Caitlin Ashley-Rollman, the program manager who has brought a whole new style to Word. For as much time as people spend writing documents in Word, we know that users also spend lots of time formatting their documents to get them to look exactly as they want. There are lots of...
• Win with a dream theme

  30 Aug 2011

  You've dotted every i and crossed every t. Wait, does anyone do that anymore? You get the idea. It's down to the wire, and you've added one last illuminating chart, a chilling conclusion, and a stunning cover page to the research paper that cost you more in caffeine bills to date than any other. What...
• Formatting vs. Styles in Word (video)

  21 Jun 2011

  Styles may be the most important feature in Word. Learn to use Styles and not only will you save yourself a lot of time from having to click bold buttons, italicize, change the font, change it back again, adjust the paragraph spacing, and ... well, you get the idea. But it also allows you to access other...
• The Why Behind Our Styles and Lists Designs

  28 Jan 2010

  In Word 2007, I was the program manager responsible for driving both the changes in the styles user experience and the investment made in lists. There a number of decisions that were made by those of us involved in those efforts that folks are still talking about (including in recent comments on this...
• BEHIND THE CURTAINS: TABLE STYLES

  24 Nov 2008

  Table Styles are my favorite type of Style in Word. They allow you to quickly and consistently format the table itself (e.g. borders, shading, etc.), the content within the table (E.g. line spacing, font color, font size, etc.), and they can also can tell a table when to do these (e.g. shade every other...
• How to Make the Formatting in Your Document Consistent

  6 Nov 2008

  Note: This post is an extended reply to Ilya's comment on my last post If you've ever worked document with more than one person, then you've likely had to deal with this type of nonsense: Sally likes to emphasize text by making it 13 point and bold, Sam prefers to change the font and italicize it, Billy...
• BEHIND THE CURTAIN: STYLES, DOC DEFAULTS, STYLE SETS, AND THEMES

  28 Oct 2008

  Intro Building off of my last Behind the Curtain post , this post will dig into the "other 20%" and specifically answer the following three questions on Styles: How do Document Defaults relate to the Normal Style? How do Style Sets relate to Styles? How do Themes relate to Styles? We've got a lot to...
• BEHIND THE CURTAIN: STYLES’ ORDER OF OPERATIONS

  16 Oct 2008

  Intro: What's a Style In Word, a style defines a set of formatting properties that are indirectly applied to characters, paragraphs, list, or tables. Instead of directly applying bold, then 14 point font, and then red to text, you can use a style to indirectly apply these three things in a single click...