Use styles

A style is a saved set of formatting with a name. When you apply the style Heading 1, the text gets that style's font, size, color, and spacing all at once. Change the style later, and every paragraph that uses it changes too.

There are two kinds of style:

• A paragraph style formats whole paragraphs.
• A character style formats only the letters you select. Emphasis (italic) and Strong (bold) are character styles.

Apply a style

1. Click in a paragraph, or select the text. For a character style, select the words.
2. In Home > Styles, click a style in the gallery.

With a text box selected instead, the style applies to all its paragraphs. The gallery shows a few styles. Use the Previous row and Next row arrows to see more, or the Show all button to see them all.

A new publication starts with these styles: Normal, Body Text, Title, Subtitle, Heading 1 to Heading 4, Quote, Caption, List Bullet, Address, Organization Name, Tagline, Phone Fax Email, Emphasis, and Strong. The heading styles use the publication's heading font, so choosing a new font scheme changes them. See Color and font schemes.

Use Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 for your headings. JeffPub builds a table of contents from them. See Contents, footnotes, and endnotes.

Make a new style

1. Format some text the way you want the style to look. Leave the caret in it.
2. Click Show all in the Styles gallery, and then click New Style….
3. Type a Style name. Check or change the other settings.
4. Click OK.

The new style appears in the gallery. It is not applied to your text yet, so click it there.

For a faster way, choose New Style by Example. Type a name for the style, based on the selected text. JeffPub makes the style and applies it at once.

Change a style

1. Click in a paragraph that uses the style.
2. Click Show all in the Styles gallery, and then click Modify Style….
3. Change the font, size, bold, italic, color, alignment, or spacing. Click OK.

Every paragraph with that style changes right away.

The dialog also has these choices:

• Style for the next paragraph: the style you get when you press Enter at the end of a paragraph. After a heading, you usually want Normal.
• Character style: check it to make a style that formats only selected text.
• Based on: JeffPub saves this choice, but a style does not change when the style it is based on changes.

Bring in styles from another publication

1. Click Show all in the Styles gallery, and then click Import Styles….
2. Choose a JeffPub publication or a .pub file.

Styles with the same name are replaced. Other styles are added. Text you have already written keeps its look until you apply the style again.

Related

• Format text
• Bullets, numbering, and tabs
• Contents, footnotes, and endnotes
• The Home tab