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    This section explains how to use, modify and create styles. Styles are used to format your document according to specific requirements – fonts, text alignment, line spacing headings and more. For example, you can set up a style for the ‘main text’ or ‘body text’ as 12 pitch font with 1.5 spacing. The UniSA thesis guidelines states that the thesis ‘will normally be printed in a 12 pitch font … with 1.5 spacing’. Styles help you to create a consistent look and feel to your document, help you navigate your long documents and create 'Tables of contents'.

    Once you have the styles set up in the way you prefer, you can apply the styles to any part of the document and the formatting will always be consistent. Hover your cursor over a style, e.g. Heading 1, to see what choices have been made for the font, paragraph and style. If you want to change the formatting, modify the style and all parts in the document selected with that style will be updated.

    If you use a template, the styles are pre-set, but can still be modified (for more, see the section on templates).
      

    Before working through this section on styles, get an overview of how styles function by going to YouTube:

     Important principles

    1. Use Styles to change the formatting in text, do not just change the text.Use styles to navigate your large document – Go to View/Navigation pane
    2. Use styles to create your table of contents – Go to References/Table of Content
    3. Use Paste Special/unformatted text if you copy text from another file. Otherwise you will corrupt the styles within your document.

     

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