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

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

Stay tuned If you’re numbering section headings, don’t use a custom list style. In a future article, I’ll show you how to create a custom paragraph style with numbering.

Stop avoiding Word styles. Instead, learn how to manage them, so you can put them to work for you.

Speed up your document edits with these five essential Word style tweaks.

You can create a hanging indent on Word by adjusting the format options. Hanging indents are commonly used in works cited and bibliographies.

The default document settings in Word 2010 create documents with the necessary margins and justification, but you have to do a bit more formatting to create a document with full block configuration.