Sytles For Word In Mac

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Every Word document you create on your Mac is fashioned from a template. The purpose of a template is to store styles for documents. In the act of creating a document, you choose a template, and the styles on the template become available to you when you work on your document.

To save time formatting your documents, you are invited to create templates with styles that you know and love. You can create a new template from scratch, create a template from a document, or create a template by assembling styles from other templates and documents. Styles in templates, like styles in documents, can be modified, deleted, and renamed.

How do you want to create a new template? You can create a new template from a document or other template, or you can assemble styles from other templates.

To create a document from a template that you created yourself, open the Word Document Gallery (click the New From Template button on the Standard toolbar) and click My Templates. Your self‐made templates appear in the gallery. Select a template and click the Choose button.

Creating a template from a document

If a document has all or most of the styles you want for a template, convert the document into a template so you can use the styles in documents you create in the future. Follow these steps to create a Word template from a Word document:

1. Open the Word document you will use to create a template.

2. Choose File→Save As.

   The Save As dialog box appears.

3. Enter a name for your template.

4. Open the Format menu and choose Word Template.

   After you choose Word Template, the Where option in the dialog box changes to My Templates. Word templates are kept in the My Templates folder. Next time you create a document, you can go to the My Templates folder in the Word Document Gallery and create a document with your new template.

5. Click the Save button.

Probably your new template includes text that it inherited from the document it was created from. Delete the text (unless you want it to appear in documents you create from your new template).

Assembling styles from other documents and templates

Use the Organizer to copy styles from a document to a template or from one template to another. After making a style a part of a template, you can call upon the style in other documents. You can call upon it in each document you create or created with the template. Follow these steps to copy a style between templates and documents:

1. Open the document or template with the styles you want to copy.

   To copy styles from a document, open the document. To copy styles from a template, create a new document using the template with the styles you want to copy.

2. Choose Tools→Templates and Add‐Ins.

   The Templates and Add‐Ins dialog box appears.

3. Click the Organizer button.

   You see the Organizer dialog box. Styles in the document or template that you opened in Step 1 appear in the In list box on the left side.

4. Click the Close File button on the right side of the dialog box.

   The button changes names and becomes the Open File button.

Attaching a different template to a document

It happens in the best of families. You create or are given a document, only to discover that the wrong template is attached to it. For times like those, Word gives you the opportunity to switch templates. Follow these steps:

1. Choose Tools→Templates and Add‐Ins.

   You see the Templates and Add‐Ins dialog box.

2. Click the Attach button to open the Choose a File dialog box.

3. Find and select the template you want and click the Open button.

   You return to the Templates and Add‐ins dialog box, where the name of the template you chose appears in the Document Template box.

4. Click the Automatically Update Document Styles check box.

   Doing so tells Word to apply the styles from the new template to your document.

5. Click OK.

6. Click the Open File button and, in the Open dialog box, find and select the template to which you want to copy styles; then, click the Open button.

   The names of styles in the template you chose appear on the right side of the Organizer dialog box.

7. In the Organizer dialog box, Command+click to select the names of styles on the left side of the dialog box that you want to copy to the template listed on the right side of the dialog box.

   As you click the names, they become highlighted.

8. Click the Copy button.

   The names of styles that you copied appear on the right side of the Organizer dialog box.

9. Click the Close button and click Save when Word asks whether you want to save the new styles in the template.

Styles - Word for Mac 2011

The template uses a feature in Word called “styles.” A “style” is a set of formatting characteristics that is applied to a portion of text. These characteristics can include any elements that define the appearance of text in your document – font, font size, font color, bold, underline, line spacing, indentation, centering, numbering, etc.

A specific set of characteristics can be saved and given a name. For example, the style named “Body Text” is applied to paragraphs in the template. (In earlier versions of the template, this style was named “Normal“.) The style “Heading 1” is applied chapter headings in the template.

With a long document like an ETDR, it’s essential to use styles to create a structured document. This can be done by using the same style for similar elements in your document. For example, use the same style for all chapter headings. Use another style for all first-level subdivisions within a chapter.

If you need to change the appearance of your document, it’s easy to make changes in the appearance of the style which will then be reflected throughout your document. For example, to change all chapter headings from left-justified to centered, you only have to make one change to the style, rather than change each chapter heading. Details on how to modify styles are provided below.

Configure Word for working with styles

To work with styles, it’s best to have Word configured with these settings:

• Use Draft view
• Style Area visible (at left side)
• Styles displayed in the Styles Toolbox (at right side)
• Use Page Layout to check your page numbering
• Display Field Shading
• Display the Paste Options menu

The table below shows how to configure these settings.

Table 1. Basic Configuration for Word for Mac 2011

Once you have Word configured in this way, your Draft view should look like this:

Figure 1. Style Area and Styles Toolbox

The Style Area (at the left) indicates the style applied to a specific portion of text. Notice these styles in the figure above:

• Heading 1 is applied to the “Chapter 2 - Review of Literature” title.
• Heading 2 is applied to the “Introduction” subhead.
• Body Text style is applied to the paragraphs. In earlier versions of the template, this style was named Normal. Normal and Body Text have the same formatting, so it's ok to use either style.

The Styles Toolbox displays a list of all available styles and is useful if you want to apply a different style to some text or to modify the appearance of a style.

Styles Used in the ETDR Template

The chart below shows the style applied to each section of the ETDR.

Table 2. ETDR Styles

Apply a different style

As you work with your document, you may need to change the style assigned to a particular portion of text. Follow these steps:

1. In the Style Area at the left, click the style on the text you want to change. This selects all the text that is using that style.
2. In the Styles Toolbox at the right, click the style you want to apply.

For example, to change a subheading from “Heading 2” to “Heading 3”, click “Heading 2” in the left Style Area to select the subheading, then click “Heading 3” in the Styles Toolbox at the right. It’s that simple!

Modify a style

Styles in the template meet all formatting requirements of the Graduate School. If you want to make any changes in this formatting, it’s best to use the Modify Styles feature. It’s possible to make extensive changes in the appearance of a style, but the basic steps are as follows:

1. In the Styles Toolbox, point to the style you want to modify. A down arrow will appear. Pull down the arrow and click Modify Style.
2. In the Modify Style window, select the formatting changes you want.
3. To see more options, click the Format menu and select the attribute you want to change — such as Font, Paragraph, or Numbering.
4. Click OK after you've modified the attribute.
5. Repeat this process for any other attributes you want to change.