AuthorTec Quick Styles

How to Use

Note for legacy users of AuthorTec Manage Styles only: This tool is located on the Home tab in Word.

Overview

AuthorTec Quick Styles allows you to customize the Styles group on the Home tab in Microsoft 365 Word. You can:

  • Set Quick Styles for a Specific Document

  • Set Quick Styles for New Documents

  • Modify styles.

How to Set Quick Styles for a Specific Document

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  1. Open the specific Word document you want to set with Quick Styles

  2. Click the Quick Styles button on Word's Home tab ribbon

  3. You will see the Create Your Document's Custom Quick Styles List dialog

  4. Adjust the Quick Styles List using the buttons between the two panels

  5. Select a Style and:

    • Click Move > to move an Available Style into your Quick Styles List

    • Click < Remove to remove a style from your Quick Styles List

    • Click Move Up to move a style up in your Quick Styles List

    • Click Move Down to move a style down in your Quick Styles List

    • Click Unselect to un-select something you have selected 

  6. Click Only in this document

  7. Click Update in the lower right corner of the dialog; it will close

  8. Use Word's Save function to save your Quick Styles for this specific document

Each time you open this document your custom Quick Styles will be set and ready to use.

  • To apply a Quick Style select the text and click the Quick Style on the Home ribbon

AuthorTec Resize Pictures Dialog Box step by step

AuthorTec Resize Pictures Dialog Box step by step

How to Set Quick Styles for New Documents

  1. Open a blank new Word document

  2. Click the Quick Styles button on Word's Home tab ribbon

  3. You will see the Create Your Document's Custom Quick Styles List dialog

  4. Adjust the Quick Styles List using the buttons between the two panels 

  5. Click New documents based on this template

  6. Click Update in the lower right corner of the dialog; the dialog will close

  7. Use Word's Save function to save your Quick Styles for new Word documents

  8. Each time you open a new Word document your custom Quick Styles will be set and ready to use

AuthorTec Resize Pictures Dialog - Step Two

 How to Apply a Quick Style

AuthorTec Resize Pictures Dialog box Step Three
 

Use the Styles group on Word's Home tab ribbon

1. To apply a style to a word or phrase

  • Select the text

  • Click the Quick Style you need

2. To apply a style to a paragraph 

  • Place your cursor in the paragraph

  • Click the Quick Style you need

3. If you don't see the style you need

  • Click the ARROW next to the displayed styles to reveal the rest of your Quick Styles

How to Modify a Quick Style

 

Step 1

  1. Right-click on the style you want to modify

  2. Select the option to Modify in the menu that you will see

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Step 2

  1. Use the Formatting area of the Modify Style dialog to make your modifications

  2. For additional formatting options, click Format in the lower left corner of the dialog

  3. Select Only in this document

  4. Click OK

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