Paragraph styles

Paragraph styles let you style whole blocks of text consistently and accurately. When you apply a paragraph style to a block of text, every word in that text is styled in the same font, size and colour. All text styled in the same paragraph style will have the same alignment, spacing and every other property you can apply to your text, making the appearance of your documents completely consistent.

The most common questions asked about paragraph styles are:

How do I create a paragraph style?

How do I apply a paragraph style?

How do I change the font, point size and colour of a paragraph style?

You can create paragraph styles for all the common elements of your document such as the headline, body text, captions or numbered text. This not only makes your document look consistent, but is also much easier than manually applying the fonts, spacing and alignments of your text.

Creating and using paragraph styles is easy. You can format a piece of text and then convert it to a paragraph style, or create a paragraph style in the Paragraph Styles dialog box and then apply it to blocks of text.

What do you want to know more about?

Editing an existing paragraph style

Deleting a paragraph style

If you make a change to a paragraph style the change will take effect throughout the document in the paragraphs that have been given that style. This means you can be certain that the text in your document will be consistently styled. There’s no need to go through and check it all.

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Changing the alignment of a paragraph style

Changing the bullet style of a paragraph style

Changing the default tab spacing of a paragraph style