in word for windowsyou can see the styles by pressing ctrl-altshift- to display the styles panewhich looks like figure - on macosyou can view the styles pane by clicking the view styles menu item figure - display the styles pane by pressing ctrlaltshift- on windows word and other word processors use styles to keep the visual presentation of similar types of text consistent and easy to change for exampleperhaps you want to set body paragraphs in -pointtimes new romanleft-justifiedragged-right text you can create style with these settings and assign it to all body paragraphs thenif you later want to change the presentation of all body paragraphs in the documentyou can just change the styleand all those paragraphs will be automatically updated for word documentsthere are three types of stylesparagraph styles can be applied to paragraph objectscharacter styles can be applied to run objectsand linked styles can be applied to both kinds of objects you can give both paragraph and run objects styles by setting their style attribute to string this string should be the name of style if style is set to nonethen there will be no style associated with the paragraph or run object the string values for the default word styles are as follows'normal'body text'body text 'body text 'caption'heading 'heading 'heading 'heading 'heading 'heading 'heading 'heading 'heading 'intense quote'list'list 'list 'list bullet'list bullet 'list bullet 'list continue'list continue 'list continue 'list number 'list number 'list number 'list paragraph'macrotext'no spacing'quote'subtitle'toc heading'titleworking with pdf and word documents