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Summary: Styles are one of the truly powerful features of Word. To use styles effectively, you need to understand how they affect the text to which you are applying them. In large part, the effect depends on what you have selected prior to applying the style. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003, and Word 2007.)
If you work with styles quite a bit, you already know that the there are two types of styles you generally work with in a document: character styles and paragraph styles. (Word 2002 and later versions also allow you to define table and list styles, but they are not used as often as character and paragraph styles, and thus are beyond the scope of this tip.) As their names imply, character styles define how individual characters should appear, while paragraph styles are more comprehensive and define how entire paragraphs should appear.
Word includes quite a number of built-in styles that you can use for your documents. Some of these are defined as character styles, but the majority of them are paragraph styles. The general rules by which style application is governed are as follows:
Tip #1888 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003 2007
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