A style is a set of formatting characteristics that you can apply to text, tables, and lists in your document to quickly change their appearance. When you apply a style, you apply a whole group of formats in one simple task.

A paragraph style controls all aspects of a paragraph's appearance, such as text alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders, and can include character formatting. A character style affects selected text within a paragraph, such as the font and size of text, and bold and italic formats. A table style provides a consistent look to borders, shading, alignment and fonts in tables. A list style applies similar alignment, numbering or bullet characters, and fonts to lists. Styles are also used to create table of contents.

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