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Style Hierarchies

Word supports both Paragraph and Character styles.

For each type we recommend that you sketch out a hierarchy of styles on paper before committing your ideas to the computer.

Use the default paragraph style Normal as the root of our tree, and build sub-trees from there.

The Heading/Text sub-tree is a set of paragraph styles for narrative text, such text as you are reading now.

The VBA sub-tree is a set of styles that are used to portray aspects of Visual Basic for Applications program code (for that is a special need within our training material)

The Student sub-tree is a set of styles aimed at activities related immediately to the members of the training course.

Templates

Create a new template

• Choose File, New, Template.

• Save it (F12) with the name “Training .dot”

Paragraph styles

Create four new paragraph styles in the following sequence:

Note that both Student and StudentDo chain to themselves. These styles are most likely to appear as a series of consecutive paragraphs.

• Type two paragraphs each in each style

• Observe carefully the effect of tapping the Enter key at the end of each new paragraph.

Chaining takes effect.

• Change the font colour of Student to be RED.

• Change the bullets in StudentDo, StudentAlert and StudentQuestion

• Change the font typeface of Student to be Charlesworth

Heading level sequences

Let us apply our knowledge to the built in Heading styles

• Create four new paragraph styles in the following sequence:

• Modify four existing paragraph styles in the following sequence:

• Use the Ctrl-Shift-arrow combinations and Ctrl-Shift-N to generate some level-based text

(H1, T1, T1, H2, T2, T2, H3, T3, T3, H4, T4, T4)

• Change the type face of Heading 1 to be Monotype Corsiva.

Hierarchical styles, well-designed (paper and pencil!), can save you lots of effort and provide a consistent design to your documents.

Character styles

We can make use of hierarchies for character styles; in this example we will work on our “emphasis” skills.

• Create a new Character Style called “cs” (lower-case letters).

• Create new characters styles in the following sequence:

• Make use of your character styles by selecting a portion of a paragraph and applying a character style.

• Expand your repertoire with the following sequence:

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