Quick Styles in Word 2007
Applies to: Word 2007
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What are Quick Styles from the End-User Perspective?
- Quick Styles are styles promoted into Word 2007's Styles gallery on the Home ribbon.
- Quick Styles provide easy access to and visibility of frequently-used styles.
- Quick Styles provide an always-there thumbnail preview to the formatting of a style.
- Styles applied in a document, by default, appear in the Quick Styles gallery.
- New styles created in Word 2007, by default, become a Quick Style.
- Quick Styles are quickly defined from the right-click menu and travel with the document.
Figure 1 - Quick Styles gallery in the Home Tab of the Word 2007 Ribbon
Figure 2 - Quick Styles created from selection formatting (Shift-F10 or right-click)
What are Quick Styles from the Designer Perspective?
- Quick Styles are a new style attribute to styles created or modified with Word 2007.
- A Quick Style attribute survives the round-trip between Word 2007 and Word 2003.
Usually a subset of styles stored in a template (.dotx or .dotm file) are assigned as Quick Styles, thus showcasing styles most recommended within the template. - Quick Styles are listed in order of Priority or Recommendation, a new Style attribute assigned through the Manage Styles utility of Word 2007: Home Ribbon | Styles Dialog Box Launcher (lower-right corner of Styles group) | then click the
Manage Styles button on the Styles Task Pane.
Figure 3 - Quick Style attribute on the Modify style dialogue
Figure 4 - Style Dialog Box Launcher
Figure 5 - Styles Task Pane
Figure 6 - Manage Styles utility in Word 2007
- Quick Styles and Style Sets extend facets of functionality previously issued through Word's less accessible features of Style Gallery, Attach Template and Organizer (Word 97-2003).
How do you Add or Remove Quick Styles from the Gallery?
In the Styles Task Pane, hover over the style you wish to remove, then drop-down its menu. Choose Remove from Quick Styles Gallery or Add to Quick Styles Gallery to toggle the visibility attribute in the open document or template.
Figure 7 - Remove Quick Styles from
the Gallery
Figure 8 - Add Quick Styles from the Gallery
