Make your Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents stand out by creating your own one-click formatting with Style Sheets (formerly known as style sets).

You can use built-in styles in Word or create a custom style to meet your specific formatting needs. Setting style defaults in Word is an excellent way to ensure consistency across multiple documents.

2. Change a Favorite Format Into a Style You can create your own styles by example, and Word will make them available to use elsewhere in the document. When none of the styles in the Style gallery ...

In Microsoft Word, styles are a combination of predefined font style, color, and size that you can apply to text to change its appearance.

Scroll through the available "Styles" in the Styles group of the Home ribbon, and click "Normal" to change the formatting style for your selected text.

Create custom styles in Word 2003 and 2007 to reformat documents quickly, and to help others format their files in a uniform manner.

How to update when no styles are in use in Word When an older document uses no styles, but you find lots of direct formatting, you can remove all the formatting and start over.

To return to Word's original default font and style settings, delete the Normal.dotm file from your computer. This forces Word to create a new Normal.dotm file the next time it launches.