To Access Or Change Bill Gates Style Sheet for Report in Word Or Create Your Own

To access or change Bill Gates’ style sheet in Word — or create your own!
[Based on Windows Word 2007 and 2010.]

To access Bill’s style sheets

Go to Home tab’s Styles section. Use arrows on right to scroll through, or click on tiny arrow in bottom right corner of Styles section to open Style pane.

To see all the styles that Bill has formatted for you, click on Options.
Under Select styles to show, choose All styles. (To change list to only the styles that are in use, go to Options: Select styles to show: In use.)

To apply a style that Bill formatted for you, click in the paragraph to format
and then click the style. Voila.

Hate Bill’s belief in predetermination? Change his styles or create your own. Be bold.
Or not. You decide.

To change Bill’s style sheet

Click on tiny arrow in bottom right corner of Styles section to open Styles pane.

You can change the document’s default font by changing the Normal style. Use a 12-point serif font like Garamond or Times New Roman for the body copy of a report. This font is
12-point Garamond. Serifs, little tails on the letters, make the type easier to read on paper.

In the Styles pane, click on the ¶ to the right of the style you want to change.

To create your own sense of style

Click on tiny arrow in bottom right corner of Styles section to open Styles pane.

Format some type so it looks the way you wish. This type is 10-point Arial italic.

The title of a table could be in 12 point bold Arial, kept with the next paragraph, with 12 points of space before and 3 points of space after:

Arial 12 pt bold centered, 9 pts above and 3 below is very nice

This body copy style is 12-point Baskerville Old Face with 15 points of paragraph spacing (aka leading) and 15 points of white space below the paragraph. This body copy style is 12-point Baskerville Old Face with 15 points of paragraph spacing (aka leading) and 15 points of white space below the paragraph.

The Normal style shown here is 12-point Garamond with no space above or below.

At the bottom of the Styles pane, click on lefthand button with AA and select New Style. Give the style a name that makes sense: body copy, or header, or table content or whatever. Click OK. The style should appear in the Styles pane.

Alternatively, you can update one of the existing styles (such as Caption or Heading 1). Click in the newly formatted paragraph, and then, in the Styles pane, right click on the ¶ to the right of the style you want to change and select Update to Match Selection. This will change the style throughout the document.

Headings

You want headings to stay with the next paragraph, so click on the ¶ to the right of Heading 1. Change the font and type size as you wish, then in the bottom left of the box, click on Format: Paragraph. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, click keep lines together and keep with next (in Word 2010, these settings may be the default for headings).

On the indents and spacing tab:Pick the font, type size and style youwant.

Then, to pick the space above and below the header, click on format and pull down to Paragraph. Put some space before the paragraph and less space below it (although, if heading 1 will always be at the top of a page, you don’t need space before it).

Arial bold 14-point type with 6 points of space below: an excellent choice for Heading 1.

Suggestions - Heading 1 should be 14-16 points, bold. Heading 2 should be 12-14 points italic. Bold underliningor italic underlining aregenerally redundant.

For the titles of figures and tables, autonumbering and formatting

To help keep these instructions consistent, we suggest you use the Caption style for the titles of figures and tables. Click where you want to place the title of the table or figure. Click on the References tab.In the middle, click on Insert Caption. Under Options: Label, select Table or Figure. Click OK. After the number type the table or figure’s title. Be consistent on whether a space, period, or colon follows the number.

To format the Caption style(the style for titles of figures and tables)

In the Styles pane, right click on the ¶ to the right of Caption and select Modify. At the very minimum, change the type size to 12 point bold and the color to black. In the bottom left corner, click on Format: Paragraph. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, click keep lines together and keep with next.

Figure 1 becomesFigure 1

If the style is applied to only part of the caption, click in the caption, click Clear Formatting in the style sheet and then click Caption in the style sheet. Repeat as necessary.