Using styles and headings

A style is a fixed combination of formatting: font, size, colour and spacing. Euro-Office has styles for normal text, a title and headings at different levels. If you work with styles, your document looks consistent throughout, and you can create a table of contents with a single click.

Applying a style

1. Place the cursor in the paragraph that should become a heading. You don't need to select anything.
2. On the Home tab, click Heading 1, Heading 2 or another style in the style gallery on the right (1). Use the arrow to the right of the gallery to see all the styles.

Use Heading 1 for chapters, Heading 2 for sections and Heading 3 for subsections within those. For normal text, choose Normal.

Keyboard shortcuts: Alt + 1, 2 or 3 turns the paragraph into Heading 1, 2 or 3 (on Mac, Cmd + Option + 1, 2 or 3).

Customising a style

Want all your headings to have a different colour, for example? Format one heading the way you want it, right-click the style in the gallery and choose Update from selection. All headings using that style will change accordingly. To create your own style, right-click the formatted text and choose Formatting as Style, then Create new style. Use Restore to default to return a style to its original state.

Quickly navigate your document with the navigation panel

Click the Headings button on the left (1). You'll then see all the headings in your document listed one below the other. Click a heading to jump straight to it. This is really handy for long documents.

Tip: styles are saved in the file. If a colleague opens the document in Word, they'll have the same styles, and the headings will work there in the navigation pane too.