paragraph and text alignment. Thanks to styles there’s no longer
aneed to add blank lines between paragraphs. Within the
paragraph, there may be some formatting applied only toa few
words. This would be a character style. Some commonexamples of
character style formatting include , underlineand strikethrough.
While these styles may effect color and style of thetext, they
generally don’t include layout and spacing attributes. List
styles are technically paragraph styles, but with the addition
of several choices for bullet or numbering options. For this
reason, wewill discuss them separately. Some word processing
systems includeoutline styles which are special purpose lists.
Styles and Templates Styles are saved in the document template.
When you create adocument based on a speciﬁc template, you also
receive the customstyles deﬁned for that template. Every
document you create is basedon a template. Even if you don’t
select a speciﬁc template, your wordprocessor will use its
default template to create your docume