Make Formatting Easy

When you’re ready to format your report, you have several choices:

Style box

  Use the Style box to apply one of the built-in styles in Word.

  Use the AutoFormat command (Format menu) to have Word apply styles.

  Do your own formatting as described in this section.

To do your own formatting, select fonts, font sizes, and paragraph formatting. From your custom formatting, Word creates a style that you can reuse. After formatting a heading or paragraph, click the Style box and you’ll find your new style in the list of Style Previews. For more information about styles created automatically, see Reuse Your Custom Formatting, and Let Word Do the Formatting for You.