If you feel you have a problem that could be of interest to others in the IEC community, please don't hesitate to let us know. We have decided to start with the question of templates and styles. These are of critical importance to IEC work, but are unfortunately sorely neglected in most training courses on Word. Also, many of you have difficulty in using them correctly. The information given is valid for users of both Word 6 and Word 7.
Styles are a collection of formatting parameters within a document.
For example, all the main headings in this newssheet are described by the parameters given in the figure below. The advantage of using styles is that all the headings look identical. Furthermore, if we decide to change one of the parameters, for example to choose a larger font, we would change it in the style only, saving us the chore of change at each heading individually in the text. A complete collection of styles can be used to define the complete formatting of a document, and this collection of styles is stored in a template . However a template can be much more than a collection of styles.